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INSURRECTIONS
In Grea BRITAI N
And IRE LAND,
Tending all, to the aſſerting of
Truth , in-Vindication of their.
MAJESTIES, |
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and ſom of them relating allo to
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Majeſties peruſal & Patronage.
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home and abroad by his flile ,
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Wits.of theſeTimes ay.C of Him,
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Majeſty with a continuarice of
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aaherec-to the King.
IV: 4: Manifeſto ſent "*Y His! | Majefes
name ts the Reformed. C hurches',” and Prin-
| ces beyond the. Seas touching His Religitns
V. Apologs , and Emblemes, in whoſe
Moralls the Times are repreſented.
VI. of the land of Ire, or 4 Diſcours of
that horrid Inſurreition in Ireland, "TIRES
the tru Taye therof,
"& Letitr He -writ to:
. Ap(wer toe Letter which -
15th. had ſent Him va
tion for concluding aha n poſs |
- vILL The Sway of we Sword, or 4 « Diſs
wrs of the Common Militia or-Soldie of the
Land, proving, That the Command: t 6-1 in
chief, Ne Yo the Raling Prince. |
VIII. 4» Italian Profpedtive, Lots,
which England may diſcern the deſperat conai-
to ſhe ſtands in. h -
IX. A Noturnall | Progriſe, or per-
ambulation of moſe Countries in Chriften-.
dom. :
s 4 indication of Hi Maj 7 touching ©
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XI. - of the Trat of the" f Wight, ad
whe Death of His Majeſty. -
Xl, Adviſe fromthe prime armory
| Florence, how England: ſhold come to. Her ſelf
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Heaven, but by calling in the King,and that, in. | -
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Iaterlocutions
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Patricius and Peregrin,
| Touching the DiſfraiFions of the Times,
VVith the Cavſes of them.
Cr ———_———— ” ye
| Patricins,
a WE- > Urely I ſhold know full a that
vv (6 5 tace and phiſnomy : O Hea-
= vens !'tis Pereerin. Gentle Sir,
you are well met,and welcom to
_ Eneland, lam heartily glad of
Your ſafe arrivall, hoping now to apprehend
ſome happie opportunity . whereby I may '
require part of thoſe worthy favours I re-
ceived from you in divers places t other {ide
fide of the Sea. - :
Ptregrin,
Sil 4 as eyed to ſee you, as any fiend
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[ have upon earch; but touching fayours,
they deſerve noc ſuch an acknowledgmear, [
muſt confefle my (elf co be farr in the arrear,
therfore you teach me what I ſhold ſpeak to
ou in thar point: Bur amongſt other offices
- of Friendſhip you have bin pleaſed to do me
from time to fime, I give you many thanks
for the faichfull correſpondence you have
held withme,fince the time of our ſeparation,
by intercours of Letters, the beſt ſort of fucll
to warm affettion, and to keep life in that no-
ble wvertue Friendſhip, which they ſay abroad,
is in danger to perith under this cold 1zſulary
clime for want of praQtiſe.
| Patricius,
Truely, Sir, you {hold have had an ac-
count of matters hence more amply and tre-
quently, but that of lace it hath bin uſuall,
and allowed by authority, to iatercepr and
| break open any Letrers; but private men
need nor complain ſo much, ſince the di-
{patches of Ambaſſadors, . whoſe-P.ckets
jſhold be held as ſacred as their Perſons, hive
bin commonly open'd, beſides ſome outra-
ges offered rheir houſes and ſeryants ; nay,
ſince their Majefttes Letters under the Cabinet
Signet have bin broke up, and other coun-
rerfeic ones Printed and publiſhed in their
names. Peregrin,
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| Peregrin. |
Indeed I muſt confeſfe the report hereof
hath kept a great noiſe abroad, and England
hath ſuffered much in point of zat/oral re-
puce in this particular ; for even among Bar
barians, itis held a kind of facriledge to o-
pen Letters; nay, icis held a baſer kind of. .
burglary, then ro break into a Houſe,
Chamber, or Cloſer: for that is a plunde-
ring of outward things onely, bur he: who
breaks open ones Letters which are che
Idea's of the mind, may be ſaid torip up his
breſt, co plunder and rifle his very brain, and'
rob him of his moſt pretious and fecreteſt
thoughts. |
Patricins, ;
Well, let us leave this diſtaſtfull (ubjeR,
when theſe farall commotions ceaſe, this.
cuſtom, I hope, will be abhorred in Zng-
land: Bur now, thar you are newly arrived,
and ſo happily met, I pray be pleaſed t
make me partaker of ſome forraign news,
and how the ſquares go betwixt France and
Spain,thoſe rwo great wheels, thar draw at-
ter their motion (ſome more, ſome lefle) all
the reſt of the Weſtern world : and when
you have done, I will give you account of
the ſtate of things 1n England.
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Peregrin,
3 Febbagke you had fo abounded with do-
meſtick- news, that you had had no-liſt- or
leiſure ro hear. any-: forrain.y bur ro obey
your commands, you know that I have been
any time theſe fix years a' Land- -loper up
and down-the:. world, and truly I-conld got
ſet foot. on any Chriſtian,thore that was in a
perfect condition ot: peace, but it was en-
gzod either'in/a dirf, dex: liary or coilatc-
rall war, or ſtanding apoh if $: guard in” conti-
nuall- apprenſions 2nd -larmes of fear: For,
fince that laſt Aamins Uſher of Gods venge-
2nce.that direful Comet of the yeer, 1618. ap-
pear'd in che heavens, ſome malevolent and
ang! y ill-aſp<Qted ſtar hattnhad che predomt-
nance ever ſ{ioce,and by it's niaHigne influxes,
made ſtrange | unu-uall \mprefſions upon.
the humors of ſubj<&s, by iactung them to
ſuch inſurrections , revolts, and tumalrs ;
which cauſed a Jewiſh Rabbi to. ſay lately,
thatit ſeems the grand Twrk thrives extra- -
ordinarily 1h his devotions, it being one of
his prime prayers:/to Mahomet, that he. (hold
prevaile wich/God Almighty: r0.comtinue dif-
enttons ſtill. among Chriſtian © Princes , And
truly, as:the caſe ſtands, one may ſay, that.
the Europzaa, World is all in pieces;
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you ktiow well with what fearfull firs of 4+
high burning fever poor Germany bath been.
long ſhaken, which-hach wrought a Lethat-:
Sie in ſome of her members, by waſting of
the vical ſpirits which ſhold diffs/e chem-
ſelves equally-through that gereat. body ;:
and how the {ll toftereth a cold Northern
Gueſt (the $wed) within her boſom, and is,
in .n 2nnuall fear of a worſe from the Le-
vant: In the Netherlands one ſhall hear the
halt- ſtarv'd ſouldier murmur -in every cor-
ner, 2nd railing againſt his King, and ready
to mutiny for want of Pay. In France you
ſh2ll ſee the poor 4{xin Pealan halt weary:
_ of his life, his face being ſo pitiful grownd,
ever ind anon with new rallies; "You know:
| therare ſom Soverdin Princes, who have 4
lons time wandred up and down: in- exile;
being outed of their owttanticnt Patrimoni-
all Ferritories, and httle hopes yet, God
wot, of reſtoring them. The wotld knows
how Savoy is become of late a kind of Pro-
vince ro France ; Nay, Spain, who hath
been fo dexterous to pur her neighbours '0-
gether by the'-cares, and to foment war a
Prof Lo keep her own home ſecure, is'
now ber ſelf in the mi6ft of two teartul
fires, kincled on borh ſides of her by quit: -
B3 revol-
:
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revolted ſubjeRs,viz.the Portugues andCat a-
lan,which ſo puzzles her, that ſhee cannot tell
what Saint to pray anto. The Yenttianalſo,with
the Pope, and all che Princes of 7taly, arc
arming apace ; the Hollander onely, Sala-
mander-like, thrives in theſe flames - and as
me ſome yeers ago, That the Aſtronomers,
I have heard of ſome that by a long habitual
caſtom could feed on payſon, and turn it to
nouriſhment, ſo Hans alone can turn War to
a Trade and grow fat by it.
Now, Sir, being weary of eating my
bread in ſuch a diſtracted world abroad, and
hoping totake ſome ſweet repoſe in Eng-
land, 1 find that ſhee is in as bad a cale, if
not worſe, then any other. So much news I
giveyoua inalump, I will be more particu-
Jar with you ſom other time,it you pleaſe to
ſpare me now, |
Patricins, |
I hear, not without much reſentment,
theſe pithy expreſſions you have been plea-
ſed to make of the rorn eſtate of Europe a-
broad; and ſince you mention that blazing
Star, I remember what a Noble Knight rold
who lay ſentinel to watch the motion and a-
ſpec of that Comet, obſery'd that the tail of
it having painted ar divers Climars, at laſt ir
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ſeem'd to look diretly on theſe North- weſt
1ands, in which poſture ir ſpear it ſelfe, and
ſo extinguiſh'd ; as if thereby it meant to tell
the world, that theſe 7ſands ſhould be the
Stage whereupon the laſt act of the Tragedie
ſhould be play d. And how many Sceres
have paſſed already, both here and in 7reland,
we know, God wot, by too too wotull and
freſh experience. 4 L {0
= ' Peregrty, "i
There 'is a ſaying Whes your neighbours
houſe « on fire, by it's light you may ſce in what
danger your own ſtands : And was England ſy
blind and blockiſh, as not to take warning by
ſo many fearfull combuſtions abroad £ When
I took my leave laſt of her, I lett her in ſuch
a compleat condition of happines, both 'ig
| Court, Country, City and Sea, that ſhee was the
envie of all Europ, in fo much, thac char Gol-
den Verſe might be ficly applied co her then
Golden times, =
Moallia ſecure pera 7ebant otia Gentes.
The Covrr was never ſo-glorious, being han-
ſelld every yeer aimoſt with anew Roya! off-
ſpring ; the Geztry no where more gallanc
and ſportfull, the C:rizem never more gorge-
ous and rich,aad ſo abounding with treaſure,
| "= Lucio
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bullion and buildings, that no age can paral=
lel ; Commerce, inward and outward ' was ne-
ver at that beighr 5 the cſtomes increaſing
every yeer to admiration; the narrow Seas
were neyer guarded with braver Ships, nor |
the navie Royall for number of veſſels and
magazines of all ſorts of materials was eyer
ſo well repleniſhed; the Univerſities bad ne-
ver ſuch ſpringing dayes : and laſtly, the
Church did ſo flourth, that amongſt the teſt
of the reformed: Churches of »Chriften-
dome, [ have heard her call d the Charch tris
umphant. :
Befiges, Ireland w was arriv'd almoſt co. the
fame degree of proſperity, for all the arrera-
ges of the Crowne were paid, and not a peny
For hence for many yeeres to maintain the
andiog army there, or for 4ny ather publick
charge, as formerly 3 Trafique came to that
mighty height of encreaſe, that in few -years
the Crown cuſtomes and 1impoſts came to be
five times higher. -Ta fine, Ireland was
brought not only ro ſubliſt' of her ſelfe, but
inabled tocontribut cowards che filling of che
Engliſh Exchequer, 2nd to make ſome rerti-
\ bution of thole vaſt expences rhe Crown
of Enzland hath been at any time theſe 4.00
'yeeres to redece her co adicus' 5 her boggs
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were almoſt all dry dup,and ate avid land-
her mydce-walls turn'd apace to Brick in di-
vers places, ſo that in gne- Sommer that I
fortun'd'to be there, above'50.,new ; Brick-
hopes were builc in one T.owne., Bur it hath
been the fate of rhar Iſland, co be ott:ntimes
neer a.condition:of a (erled;bappineſs,apd yer
to have ſome odd accident Kill intervene” ro
crolle it. |
In ana there wanted. nothing to
make England and her united Crowns (o ex:
aaMly. bleiſed, that ſhe. might have -aſſumed
the ticle of one of the Fortunat Iſlands. Good
Lord, how comes ic co paſſe, that ſhe is now
fallen i into ſuch horrid difte mpers, and like
a diſtrated body, laying hanc's upon hx (el
would thruſt the ſword a civil war; into
own bowels? Ebeſeech you, Sir, imparr _
me the:rrye cauſe, of this.change for I know
none ſo capable co-dQ it as your ſeth
Patriciss.- .
f > 60 Led Per egrine,Jubes renoyare delorees
Firſt, Sir,'n che generall you know, chat
it's with the:Regions upon Farth,as iris with
' thoſe of: che Ayre,lometimes we have 2 clear
azur'd skie with (oft gentle vencilations,and
a ſweet .ſerenitie the whole ; Hemelſphere.
overs at other. times we know the face of
the
5k het ow 2 he
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the heavens is over-caſt with frowns, with
Frog vapors, and thick clouds of various
ſhapes, which look like Monſters, hoye-
ring up and down, break ar laſt into
thunder ' and fulgurations, and ſo difquiet
and raiſe a kind of war in the Aereaf Com-
won-weelth, Juſt ſo in the Regions that are
diſpers'd up and down this earthly Glooe,
peepled wich men (which are bur a-compo-
fition of the Elements) you have ſometimes
a gentle calm of peace and quietnde, with a
general tranquillicie all the Countrey over ;
| at other times you have ugly miſhapen
clouds of jealouſfies, fears, and diſcontent-
ments riſe ap, which break out at Jaſt in-
ro as of diſobedience, rebellion, and fury.
nd as thoſe Aereall Meteors and Monſters
above, are ingendered of thoſe watery fogs
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and miſts which are drawn up out of fennie
and rottenlow grounds here upon. earth ;; (0
in the Region.of the mind, the ill yapors
which aſcend to the brain from rotten and
impoſtumaced hearts, from deſperate and
male-conrented humoriffs are the cauſes of
all civil commotions and diſtempers in
Stare. Bur they have much ro anſwer for
inthe world ro come (though they eſcape
it inthis) who forany private intereſt or re-
ſpet
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ſpe whatſoever, either of Promotion,” ain-
glory, Revenge, Malice, or Envie, will em-
broyl and plunge their- own native Country
| in any publick ingagement or civil war, by
putting 4 partition- wall betwixt their ſove=
rain Prince and their fellow- ſubjects. True-
Ny, in my opinion, theſe may be called the
worſt kind of Betrayers of their Countreys,
But I am coo far tranſported from ſatisfying
your requeſt in relating the true cauſes of
theſe calamities, I will now fall ro work,
and bring you to the very ſource of chem..
| Ther is apack of perverſe people (com-
poſed for the moſt part of the ſcummie and
baſeſt ſort) multiplied in England, who by
a kind of natural inclination, are oppoſic ſo.
point blank to Monarchy in State, and Hit,
rarchy in Church, that I doubt it they were
in Heyen (whither 'cis to be fear'd they -
run a great hazard eyer to enter, it being a
rule, that he who « rotten-hcarted to his King,
can never be right-hearted to his Creator) 1 ſay
it cheſe men were in Heven, they would go
near to repine at the Moparchical power of
God Almighty himſelf, as alſo at the de-
I 2rees of Angels, and the poſtures of holineſs
in the Church triumphant. They call every
Crotchet of the brain, tenderneſs of ſeen
or-
| the world beſides, beleeving that they? are
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forſooth: which being, well exariiined, is
nothing'eMe but a meer ſþ#rit of contradid#is ffo
07, bf malice and diſobedience to alt higher Bb
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| Powers which poflefſerh them. Ther are
no conſtitutions either Ecclefiaſtical-or Ci- |
vil can pleafe chem, bur they wold caſt both-
into fuch and ſuch - a '»»oxld,* which their
crack d brains wold fain' deviſe, yet are ne-
-yerable ro bring to any perfetion ; They.
ateever labourting to' bring Religion'to the
dodck; and ro'be new trimm'd, but chey wold
take down her fore- Caſtle, and'(carce allow
her the Kings Armes to adorn her: They
are great liſtners after any Court-news, and
prick up their eats when any thing 1s ſpoken
of King, Qaeen, or Privie Councellour, |
1nd are always ready, though upon looſe
truſt, co take up any report whereby they
may whiſper in conventicles and corners,
and ſo traduce the Goverament, Theſe
oredt Zelots uſe to look upon themſelves
- moſt commonly chrough multiplying
oplaſfes, which make them appear to be ſuch
huge Santons, that itrenders them not one:
ly uncharicable in their opinions of others,
but Luciferian-like proud im their own con-
ceit, inſomuct! that they ſeem to fcorn' all
-the
is ſhe only Z/e& whoſe ſouls work: according
;: fo the motion of the Spiric : | thar they are
er be true Children of promiſe, whoſe faces
re Bone look towards, Heven ; They are more
pleaſed with ſome new reach or fancy, (that
may puzzle the pericraninm) than a French:
man is in ſome new faction in cloathing:
JThey are neareſt co:che natyre of the Jew
Jof any people upon earth, and will converſe
1e Jvich - bj ſooner than with ſome fort of
1d | Chriſtians; . And as in their phariſaicall Di-
w [| poſitions they ſymbolize: wich :the Few, ſo
-y Jia ſome of their poſitzons they jump pat with
id I the 7eſuit - for though they are both in the
-n extremes, and as contrary one to the other,
r, | a5 the points of a diameter, yet their opinions,
ſe | and, practiſes are concentrique, viz. to de-,
y | prefle regall power ; Both of them,wold bind
s, | their Kings in Chaines, and the Nobles. in
ſe | links:of Iron , They both deny all pave obe-
+5 | dience, and as the one wold have the morter.
3? | of the Temple cempred with blood, fo the.
-1} other wold beat Religion inco the brain with
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But the Feſuit doth ie more cumningly and
modeſtly, tor he fercheth his news fro
far, ſo that before the falſhood of it can be
contrould, his work is commonly done, and
the news forgotten ; But theſe later poliri-
fians uſe to raiſe lies hard by home, ſo that
the grofſeneſs and palpableneſfle of them is
preſently diſcovered. Beſides, to avoid the
extremes of the other, theſe ater ſeem to
fall into flat prophanneſs, for they may be \
called 4 kind of enemies to the very Name,
Croſſe, and Church of Chriſt, Touching the | ©
firſt, They repine ar any reverence to be
done unto the name of Jeſus, though ſpon- ||
taneous, not coercive, For the ſecond, «
which was held from the beginning to be p
the badg and Banner of a Chriſtian, they
cry up the Croſle to be the mark of the b aſt ;
And for the laſt, viz. che Church, they g
wold have it to be neither beaurifull, holy, | ©
nor amiable, which are the three main pro- || ©
perties that God requires in his houſe, To | ©
conclude, when any comes to be ſeaſon'd | f
with this ſower leaven, he ſeems to dege-' -
nerat preſently from the nature and garb of 0
a Gentleman, and fals to be of a ſordid and
low diſpoſition, narrow hearted and cloſe 't
handed ; to be timerous, cunning and jea-'
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lous, and far from the common freedom,
.and ſweetneſs: of morall ſociety, and from
all generous and loyal choughts cowards his
King and Country. | >
Theſe, theſe have bin- the chiefeft ma-
| chinators, and engeneers Englands unhappy
diviſions, who Viper-like have torn the en-
trailes of their own mother their dear
Country - Bur ther were other extern con-
carrent cauſes, and to find them out, I muſt
look Northward, for there the cloud began
to condenſe firſt ;
You know Sir, the Scot's, nation were ever
uſed to have their King perſonally reſident
, | amongſt chem, and though King Fames by
» || reaſon of his age, bogxty, and long breeding
there, with other advantages, drew ſuch ex-
7 | traordinary reſpe& from them, that they
> || continued in good conformity : yet ſince his
/ | death, they have been over-heard co mutter
» | atthe remotenefſe and abſence of their King,
and that they ſhold become nowa kind of
province by reaſcn of fucha diſtance : ſome
of th:ir Nobles and Gentry found not ar
the Engliſh Court, nor at his Majeſties Co-
ronation in Edenburgh that Conmenance, Fa-
miliarity, Benefit and Howours which haply
they expected, and 'tis well known who he
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- 12s; that having been :denied 10 be lorded,
(David Lefley) rxook a per, and went: diſcon-
aided to the wealth he had got abroad,ſhould
tive purchaſed 'him/ more "reſpeR. Theſe
cenary preachers up and-down Scotland, to
obtrude to the people: what doftrines they
put into their mouches, ſo chat che pulpics
every Where rung of nothing butof inveRives
againſt certain obliqui ties and Solzciſmes
(and I cannot tell whar) in government, and
many” glances they had upon the Eneli(þ
Church : yet all rhis wiile cthere-was not
matter enough for an inſurrection, nor to
diſpoſe the peoples hearts co a mutiny; until
| by the policy (as ſome #fhrmed) of the aid
diſcontented party the Engliſh :Lyturgie was
Hery pulpiteers,was cryed up to be the great-
eſt Idoll that poſſibly conid be brought into
theit- Kerke, infomuch thac when irwas firſt
of *mechaniks threw ſtooles and ſtones at
the' Biſhops heads, and' were -ready to tear
them 1x peeces”: And bere began the ſtorm.
His Majeſty having notice hereof,ſent a moſt
7" Moos proclamaniou,lignitying,thar where-
.-- as
tented to his country, hoping'that ſome ticle
ciſcontented parties tamperd with the met-
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as he had recommended that Book to-be
ratis d amongſt them; wherein he himſelf
ſerved God Almighty twice a day, he did it
out of a pious endeavour to breed an #77
formity of publick Divine ſervice-in all his
.dominions, ſpecially in that his #ative King-
dom. Bur fi nce it had produced ſuch dange-
rous effects, he was contented to revoke it
abſolutely ; "for it was never his purpole to
pref the practiſe of the ſaid book upon the
conſciences of any,. he did onely commend,
not. abſolutely command, the uſe of it ;
Therefore he exhorted and required chat
every one unto whom it had given any ſcan-
dal, ſhold return to his priſtine obedience,
and ferve God 2s fortnerly, -offering here-
with a gracious pardon, and to paſſe an AR
of Amneſtia tor an abolition of all faults
paſſed.
Peregrin.
And would not this ſuffice? In "on
motions we find that the cauſe being taken
away, the effect ceaſeth, and will, not this
holdin ctvil Adcions * :
Parrictts.
No, thi s$ wold not ſerve the turn, but tl e:
was archer reachinit, and for an inch ro
take anell : you know the Scots ſince the ic
GC ſingle
_ * fnele Lion came to quarter with our three,
are much elevated in their ſpirits, more re-
ſpeed, emploied and truſted abroad, . they
are heightned in their reſolutions. and aims,
and will queſtionleſs be daily more and
more. - You have heard of a Mine char
reach'd from our .exchequer to Edenbnreh.
And I beleeve you have-not-forgot Bocco-
linies balance, thar was ſhewed us in 7rale,
wherein” Lorenzo ds Medici weighed all the
ſtates of Chriſtendom, and throwing in Z»g-
land amongſt the reſt, you know how much
he made her to weigh leſs by this addition.
The former Proclamation I ſay, and Pardon
would not ſuffice, but rhey took opportuni-
ty to fiſh in thoſe croubled waters, and veat
their ſpleen turther, by an utter extirpation
of Epiſcopacy, and by trampling the. mitre
under their feer, hoping to have ſom of the
birds plumes, being plucks, to feather their own
neſts; And they brought their work abour z
Good Lord, what a deal of dirt was prefent-
ly thrown into the Bi{hops faces by every
Rurall perctie Clerk ! what infamous bal-
lads were ſung, what a thick clowd of Epi-
- demical hatred hung ſuddenly over them, ſo
far, that a dog with black and white ſpots
was called a Biſhop amongſt them up and
down the ſtreets, The
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' The chiefe@; .concrivers, ag thay up-n
fi nding cheir deiign to go fondo well, iy. we
perceiving the whole Copntry: fo o eagerly
bear againſt B:ſbops, {and what artifices and
ſuggeſtions wererus'd to render them ſo-0-
dions ts incredible) bur fiading' withall his
Majaeſtie unwilling to alter che government
his father (of ſo freſh and famous memory)
had lefr him, and te which he had big ſworn
at his Coronation, ' they put themſelves in
arms, and” rais'd forces to beat down the
»itre with the ſword, if the ſcepter would
not:do:it. To the frontiers they came with
agreat Army, (ot half ſo great as was þry-
ted). Pretending they came as Peticioners -
(though they brought their Perition -upor
the,pikes.point,) Some of the great.ones: a-
bouc:the King grew cold in the action : And
whata pacification was then thaffledup, and
how a Parliament was called thereupon in
Scotland, ' 'with other paſſages, is a fitter
ſubjeR fora ſtory then a.diſcourſe. =
Peregrin.
Ticould! have wiſhed two things, that ei-
ther, His Majeſty had given them batrail
then, thaving the-flower of his Nobilicy and
Genery: with him, who I underſtood came
wich allcheertulneſle and pomprituce ro at-
C2 tend
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tend him, orelfe that after the ſaid pacifi-
cation, His Majeſtie had ſhaken off all jea-
louſies,/ and with a royall freedom and a
commanding -- confidence gone amongſt
them to hancel{ cheir new Parliament Houſe
ar Edenburgh, tor it is probable, it had a-
verted thoſe ſhowers and cataracts ofrimiſe-
ries which havefallen npon us fiace z. bur 1
pray Sir, proceed. | Us
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As they ſay, there & no wind but blows
ſome-body good, ſo it wis thought, this Not-
thern clowd did England ſome adyantage,
for a Parliament was ſummond hereupon :
a Parliament do]I call ite: ic was rather an
Embryo of a Parliament, an Ephemeran of
20; days. In this fitting His Majeſty decla-
red unto both Houſes the indignities he had
received by His Scotch Subjects, and
therefore propos 'd a ſupply to be made of
twelve ſubſidies to ſuppreſs that Rebellion z
and in lieu thereof he was willing to: forbear
and utterly to aboliſh "the Ship-money,
which he had reaſon to think legall at firſt,
being adviſed thereunto by Noy. his: Attor-
ney Generall, who had ſach a mighty re-
pure in the Laws, yer he would nor reſt
ther, bute adviſed further with his /carmed
Coun-
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Councell, who' concurred in opinion with
Noy 3. Not wold he reſt ther: alſo, bur he.
had the approbation of all the Fudzes ſingly,
and afterwards of nine of the rwelye jointly
upon'a demur. This was enough, to induce:
his conſcience to hold'it legall all this while z
It was clearly proved that the: moneys-levi-
ed this way, were employed to, no other
but the intended ſervice; the. garding of the
aarrow $ea5;; and-not onely for thar, bur .to
preſerve .his- right of Dominion-in. them »
being the faireſt lower'of his Crown, which
was n6t onely diſcourſed of .abroag, . but. be-
2an £0 be queſtioned by the-French. Cardi-
nalt: And ;rouching danger., haw .could
Entland be but in ;apparant dangers ? con-
{tderivg bow all.her next neighbours. were
in aQuel hoſtility, which made huge fleets
of men of war, both Frexch, ' Dunkerkers,
Hamburzers and Hollanders to tail and flaunt
ever and anon in her Ghanxells, and hard be-
tore her royall Chambers: nor came ther
one; penny. of that-publick contribution ro
his privar coffers, but he added: much of his
own:demeans for the maintenance of a royal
fleet every ſommer - yet he was ready to
paſſe any Bill for the utrer aboliſhing of the
ſaid $hip-money, and for redrefſing of ai y
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dther orievances, provided they wold..en-
able him to- ſappteſs this Scors' Rebellion:
{ome [ay the Houſe was inclinable to: com-
ply with his Majeſties demands, bur (as the
it fpitit wold have it) that Parliament was
ſaddetily brok np,and I wold they who. goon
thar Connſel had bin then in Arabra,
beyond che Line, in their way co Madigat-
cay, who ievertheleſſe have gor-to- be in
high requeſt with this prefenc. Parliament.
Among others, -old Sir Harry Vane .was
nie, who, whet the Hoiſe:ſcern'd willing 20
vive fix ſubfidies, andthe King inclinable
to take them; The ſaid Vaxe being the Se-
cretary of State Rood up; and (aid, "Hlis Ma-
jeſty exptRed no 'lefs then ewelve, which
LotYs didſo ihcenſe and difcompoſe the
Houſe, that they drew after rhem chat \un-
happy diffolution. |
His Majzfty beim? -redaced to. -rheſe
ſtrairs , and reſentins- {ſtil} the inſolence of
the Scot, propoſed the-buſines'to His Pri-
vy Connce®l, who ſuddefly-made upa Con-
fiderable and moſt nobleſumme for his pre»
ſent ſupply, whereunto divers of his -dome-
ſtick fervants and Officers -did coneribur.
Amoneft others who were aQive herein,
the Earl of Strafford beſtird himſelf nota-
bly,
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bly, and having got a Parliament to be.
call'd in zreland he went over, and with in-
credible celeritie raiſed 8000. men, who
procured money of that Parliament to
maintain them, and got over thoſe angry
Seas again in the compaſle of leſſe then {ſix
weeks. You may infer hence ro what an
exat ' uncontrollable obedience he had
reduced that Kingdom, as to bring about ſo
creat a work with ſuch a ſuddennes and fa- '
Cllitie 2
| An armie was alſo raiſed. here, which
marched to the North, and there fed upon
the Kings pay a. whole Summer, The Scot
was not 'idle all this while ; buc having pun-
cuall intelligence of every thing that paſſed
at Court, as tarre as what was debated in the
Cabinet Councel, and ſpoken in the bed-
chamber,(and herein amongſt many others,
the Scot had infinice advantage of us) He
armed alſo, and preferring ro make England
the ſtage of the warre, rather then his own
countrey, and to inyade rather then to be in-
vaded, He got over the Tweed, and found
the paſſage open, and as ic were made for
him all cbe way cill hee came to the Tye,
and though there was a conſiderable army of
Korſe 4nd foot at Newcaſtle, yer they never
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Offered ſo much as to face him all the while,
Ar Newburgh indeed there was a (mall $kir-
miſh, bur the Zzg{:(h foor would not fight, fo
Newcaſtle gates flew open to the Scot withont
any reſiſtance at al}, where ir is thought he
had more friends then foes, and who were
their friends beſides for this invaſion, I hope
Time, and the Tribunal of Juſtice will on
* His Majeſty being chen at York, ſummo-
ned all his Nobles to appear, to adviſe with
them in this exigence: Commiſhoners were
appointed on both fides, who met ar Rippon,
. and how the hearts and courage of ſome of
the Enzliſh Barons did boil within them, to
be brought co fo diſadvantageous a Treatie
with che Scot, you may well imagin, So
the Treatie began, which the Scot wold not.
conform himſelf ro do, unleſs he were firſt
unrebell'd and made Refs in Cnria, and the
Proclamation, wherein he was declared
Traitour, revoked, alledging it wold be
ciſhonorable for His Majeſty to treat with.
rebels. This treaty was adjourned to Lon-
Aon, where this preſent Parliament was
ſummoned (which was one of the chiefeſt
errands of the Scoz, as ſome think,) And
thus far by theſe ſad and ſhort degrees, have
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[ faithfully-led yon along to know the ttu
originals of our calamities,
Peregrin,
Truly Sir, I muſt cell you, that co my
knowledg theſe unhappy traverſes with
Scotland, have made the Zngliſh ſuffer
abroad very much in point of National ho-
nour 3 Therefore I wonder much that all.
this while ther is none ſet awork to make a
ſolid Apologie for Zneland in ſome com-
municable language, (either in French or
"|| Latis) to reftifie the world in. the. truth of
the thing, and:to vindicat her, how ſhe was
bought and ſold in this expedition, conſide-
ring what a party the Srot . had here, and
how: his comming in, was rather an 1»vita-
tion, then an 1vaſion, . and I beleeve if it had
bin in many parts. of the world beſides,
ſome of the Commanders had- gone to the
ot, > |
4 PAIricins.
It is the praiſe of ſome States I know,
to make ſacrifice of ſome eminent Miniſter,
for pablick miſtakes : but to follow the thred
of my Ditcourſe. The Parliament being
ſate, His Majeſty told them, that he was
reſolved to caſt himſelf wholly upon the
affeRtion and fidelity of his people, where-
of -
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of they were the Repreſentative body:
Therfore he wiſhed them'to' $0 roundly on
tocloſe up the ruptures that were made by
this infortynat war, and that the two armies,
one domeſtick, the 'other forrain,' "which
were gnawing the very bowels of the King:
dom, might be diſmifſed. Touching grie-
ances of any kind (and what 'State was
ther ever 'fo pure, but ſome corruption fſ
might creep into it ?) He was very ready to
redrefſe them : concerning the 'Ship-»20ny,
he was' willing to paſs 1B. for the utter
Shoucon ot ir, and tq eſtabliſh rhe 'proper-
ty of the ſubje& ; therefofe ie wiſhed them
not to ſpend too much time about'thar. Andſ*
for Monepolies,” he delired tg'have a liſt of
them, andhe wold' dami'themn all in ons
Proclamation : Touching ill Counſelouye, $0
either in Weſftminſter- Hall, or White-Hall, ('®
either in Church or 'Stare, he was teſolved
to protet none, Therefore he wiſhed that] £*
all jealquſies and miſunderſtandings might
vagiſh.: "This, with ſundry other ſtrains off:
-Prigcely grace he delivered unto them, but
y
withall he told xhem, that they ſhold' be
very cautious how they ſhook the fram of an
ancient Goyerament too far, in regard' it
'was like. a ratch, which bring put aſundtr,
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4
eb can never be made up Again, if the leaf pin be
by left Out, * HEE fp
es, | So ther were great hopes of a calm, after
ch ſchac cold Northern ſtorm had ſo bluſtered,
and that we, ſbold be. ſuddenly rid of the
Scot, bur that was -leaſt intended , untill
ſom defigns were brought about, The
Earl of $:7aferd, thie Archbiſhop of Canterby-
79, the Fridges, and: divers Monppoliſts are
lapt:up, :: and you know who took a timely
flight. (Lord Finch) to the other fide'ot the
Sea. iAnd inlieu- of theſe, the Biſhop of
Lincols is enlarged, .Baſtwick, Burtov, and
Prynn are-brought into Loder with a kind
of Hsſaniia. His Majeſty gave.way to. all
this, and:cro comply.turcher with: them, he
took as itiwere into:bis boſom, I'mean,bead-
mitred-to bis Privy >Councell thoſe Pas! ia-
menrLoods, who were held the, greateſt
Zelots amongſt chem,.'that they might,,be
wicneſſes of his ſecretiſt:ations, and to one
of chem-{the/Lord Say) he'gave one of the
confiderableft Offices of the Kingdam, by
the refignation of - another moſt deſerving
Lord, upon whom they could neyer faſten
the leaſt miſdemeanour ,z yet this great new
Of ficer:wold:come neither ro- the-ſame Ora-
tory, Chappell, or:Churcch,:to-Joynn pray-
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ſancie? Toanother hegave one of the prime
and moſt repoſefull offices about this own
give his SubjeRs an: Evidence'-how firmlyſf
danghter ,"and\the young” Prince of Orexet,
-ment of 'compliance and' grace, .the .pafſing
. of the Billfor a T7/ernidi{: Parliarhenr,. and
laſtly (which -is the; greateft Evidence that
poſſibly can be imagined, of 'that: reall rruſ
| ſed thar prodigious At of Continuance: '
may come ſome wholeſome fruir out of it, |!
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er with tiisRoyall Maſtet; nor-communicatf
with him in any publick exerciſe of devoti-
on: and may not"rhis* be! caitled a tru Recy:
Perſon at Court (The Earl: of: Eſſex) and
thereby he might be taid ro have given;
Staff to bear'himſelf... Moreover: partly: to
he was rooted in his'Relig7on, and how much
he deſired the ſtrenthning of' ic abraad,:The
rreaty of marriage'went- on 'twixt: his eldef
Hereunto may be-added as a ſpeciall argu:
and confidence he repoſed in them) -he-paſ-
. Pertgrin. The
Touching the Trienniall Parliament, there
will keep all Officers im-awe,and-excite the
Nobilicie, and young Gentrie of the King-
' dome to ſtudie, and underſtand the Govern-J?<
ment of the land, and be able roffit and ſerveſſil
their countrey in this great Senate - But for
this
, "I4Þ ]
Khis A& of Continuazce T underſtand it-nots -
parliaments are good Phyſick,but ill neat;;They
Way abroad that Exgland. 1s turned hereby
rom a; Monarchy to:a Democracy, to a perpe-
K&na! kind of Duinzentumvirat;and whereas in
Former times ther was a Heptarchy of feven.
Kings inher, they ſay now ſhe hath ſeventy,
mes ſeven.Bur in lien of theſe unparallell'd
-RAcs of grace and truſt to the Part; what did
aly the Parliament for che King all this while ©
Patricins. | :
hel} They promiſed, ſpecially upon the paſſing
lef of the laſt At, That they would make hins
Ihe maſt glorious, the beſt beloved, and richeſt
T1 King that ever reiened in Eneland: and- this
- offiÞEy did with deep proteſtings and affeyera-
and $1i00s»: Bur there intervened anill-fayoured
hx accident which did muci hurt, wiz, A Diſ-
a $9%7ſe (for truely I think it was no more)
2{. (ut a crſcaurſe; which ſome green heads held
_ - ſto bring. up the Notthern armie, to check
. Ithe Purican partie,and the rabble of che citie:
eref I his kept a mightie: noyſe, and you know
ir |*ho fled upon-1r, and-much uſe was made of
cheſſit to make that cloud-of jealouſte which was
go: but of the;breadth of a hand before, ro ap-
rn-|2ear as big as a mountaine. Yet his Maje-
rye(ſile continued ſtill in paſſing Acts of grace,
for £3 and
this |
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and complying with them in. every thing
Hee put over unto thetn the Earle of Straf,
ford, who after along caſtly rriall (wherei
he catried himſelf wich.as much acutenefle
dexteritie and eloquence, as humane brains
could be capable of for his defence) hee waf*
condemned to the Scaffold, and ſo made
ſacrifice to'the Scot, who Nayed chiefly for
his head, which beſides rhoſe-vaſt ſummes of
money, was given him to boot. = T
Pereprin,
Touchiag the Earle of Srrafford, 'cis try, C
he was fall-of ability, elocution and confi-ll
dence, and underſtood thelawes of England *
as well as any, yer there were two chings,! in
heard, wherein his wiſdom was queſtioned;[], -
firſt that having a charge ready againſt his"
chiefeſt accuſers, 'yet he ſuffered chem hg
to have the priority '-of ſute , which®"
if he had gor he haduhereby made chem ir
parties, andſoincapablerobe produced
vainſt him:Secondly,thar during che time off ©:
his tryall, he applyed not himſelf wich chat uy
compliance to 'his Jury as well as to his 10h
Tudees, for he was obſerved rocomply or: W-
ly with the Lords, and nor wich che Houſe,
of Commons, Df, Wn =
in di
Pat im,
" -
OO, Patricia. _—
| Howloever, as ſome ſay, his death Was
J tcſolved upon, (/i 707 per viam jaſtitie, fal-
rew per wiam expedieniie) which appears in
regard the proceedings againſt him are'by 1
clauſe in the At not to be produced for a lead-
ing caſe or example to fature ages and inferi-
' Jovr Courts: I bluſh to tell you how much
'"F the rabble of the City thirſted after his
blood, how they were ſuffered to ſtrut up
and down the. ſtreets before the royal
: Courr, and the Parliament it ſelf, with 'im-
p puoiry ;'T hey cried out, thar if the Commun
aw fail'd, clab law ſhould knock bim
1 cown, ,and, their, inſolency came to that
'F beight, that the names'of thoſe Lords thar
would not doome him to death, ſhould be
þ{&ven them to fix upon poſts up and downe';
"JAnd this was the firſt tumult that happened
this Parliament, whereof ſo many followed
after their example, being not onely con- :
niv'd at, but backed by authoritie, for there
were prohibitions ſent from the Parliament,
to hinder all proceſſe-againſt ſome of them.
Fx Theſe Myrmidons, as they rexmed them-
"Fſelves, were ready at a watchword, ſo that
one-might ſay there was a kind of diſciphne
In Ciſorder.
| Peregris
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| Peregrin,
Were ther any troubled for delivering their
votes in the Houles?I chought that freedom
of opinion and ſpeech, were one of the prime
priviled$es of that grear Nationall Senar.,
| Patricins.
Yes, Thoſe that were the XMiz/on of the
Houſe before, became now .the ſubjects of
popular malice and detraction,(as the Lord
Digby now Earl of Briſtol for one)becauſe a-
gainſt the ditamen of their conſciences they
would not vote theEarl of Strafford to death,
and renounce their own judgments, and
captivate it to the ſenſe of others, yer they
ſtood firm to their firſt grounds, that he was
a delinquent in a high niture, and incapable
ever to beare office in any of His Majeſtics
dominions.
Peregrins
I perceive Sir by your ſpeeches, that one
of the chieteſt cauſes of theſe combuſtion} ;
-may be imputed to the Citie of Loxdos,
which .miay be called the Metropolis of all
theſe evils, and I lictle wonder ar it, for it
hath been alwaies incident to all great
Townes, when they grow rich and popu:
lous, to fall into. a&ts of infolence, and to
ſpurne at government; where ſo many pots
. ( l
fo þ
ſto be buried alive, _ ſo forgotten 2s it
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(lo many braines I meane) zre a boyling,
ther muſt needs be a great deal of froth, but
ler her look to her ſelf, for Majeſty hath
long arms, and may reach her at laſt, But
-the truth is, that Loxdon bears no proportion
wich the ſize of chis Ifland,for either the one
{hold be larger, or the other lefler : London
may be well compared to the liver of 4
cramm'd Italian gooſe, whoſe fathing etna-
cerates the reſt of the whole body, aid
makes it grow lean and languiſh, and ſhe
may be well cerm'd a gooſe now more then
ever, for her feathers are pluck'd apace ; but
now that you have done with the Earl of
Strafford, what is become of all the reſt who
were committed ? 3:
Patriciivs, TOR!
They are ſtill in durance, and have conti-
nued-ſo theſe two years and upward,yet are
not proceeded againſt,not brought to their
anſwer to this very day, though all the
Cotits of Juſtice have bin open ever fince.
Many hondreds more of the beſt ſort of
Subje&s have bin ſuddenly clapc op; and
ro cauſe at all mentioned in many of thetr
commicments, and new Priſons made of
purpole for them, where they may be ſaid
cher
made ule of,
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ther were no fuch men in the world (wher-
of rhe Author was one :) And how this can
ſtand with Magna Charta, with the Petition
of Kig5t (to vindicat which, ther was fo
much pains raken- the laſt Parliament) ler
any man of a {ane judgment determin, Yet
one of the Judges, who hath an Impeach-
ment of Hi2h Treaſon till lying Dormane
againft um, though he be not Red7ms tn Cu-
ria himſelf, 1s ſuffered to fic as Judge upon
che higheſt tribunall of England, whereas
another for a pretended mildemeanour only
is barr'd from fitting ther, Others who were
at firſt cryed up and branded to be the moſt
infamous Projedors and Monopolizers of the
land, (as Hamilton, Holland, &c.) are not
only at liberty, but crept. into favour,and
Pereevin, |
Hath the houſe of Commons power to
commit any but their own Members with-
our conference with the Lords ?. Or hath
any Order or Ordinance of one of the Hou-
ſes ſingly, or of both conjunaly, power to
enjoin a virtual,binding, generall obedience
withour the Royal conſent ?
Patrlciths.
Ibe power o: Paclament, when King,
| Peers,
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Peers, and Commons, which is the whol&
Kingdom digeſted as it were into one vo-
lum, is indefinic, but what either'of boch
Houſes can do of themſelves fi ngly or joyat-
ly wichout the King who is the life. of che
Law, elpecially when a viſible faction
| reigns amongſt them, I will not deter-
MIN» |
| tentas componere lites
#03 opts eſt noſtre ——
But for my own opinion, I think ic is as im-
poſſible for them ro make a Law without
the King, as it was for Paracelſus ro make a
human creture without cozt70p of both ſexes,
The reſults of Parliament without the Roy-
all conſent, are as matches withoar fire
And it is an incontroulable principle, that
the o!4 Law muſt be our guide, till ew be
made, noris any Act of the Subje& juſti=
fiable, but what is warranted by the 0/4. But
ro proceed in the tru diſcovery of theſe Do-
meſtick ſ{ciflures, my Lord of Stafford being
gone, we hop'd fair weather wold tollow.(He
who was the cauſe of the tempeſt (as they
pretended) beiag thrown over-board) buc
unluckie miſts ot jealonſie g orew thicker and
thicker ; Yet the Scots were diſmiſt, ha-
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ving had Fidlers fare, meat,drink,and money,
for eleven long moneths together. So His
Majeſty went to Scotland, where the Parlia-
ment ther, did but as& and have any thing,
chough it be the unqueſtionable Preroga-
tive of Majeſty to grant or deny Petitions,
and to {atisfie his conſcience before any
Conncell whatſoever.
Bur during his ſ0journ-ther, this formida-
ble hideous Rebellion brok out in. 1reland,
which though it may be ſaid co be but an
old play newly reviv'd, yet the Scene was
' never {o Tragicall and bloody as now: for
the Barbariſmes rhit have bin committed
ther have bin ſo ſanguiniry, and mon-
_ Rrouſly ſavage, chat I think poſterity will
bold them hyperboiicall when Hiſtory re-
lates them. The 1rþ themſelves affirm ther
concurr'd diveis cauſes to kindle this fire :
One, was the taking off of _ \'s head,
(who awd them more then any Deputy ever
did) and that one of his Accuſations ſhoid
be to have uſed the Papiſts ther too favou-
rably : Seconcly, the rigorous proceedings
and intended courles againſt the Roman Ca-
tholiques here in England. Laſtly, the ſtop-
ping of that Reg7mert of Iriſh, who was pro-
miſed by His Majeſties Royall Word and
Let--
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Letter to the Kiag of Spaiz, who relying -
upon that employment, rather then co beg,
ſteal, or ſtarve, turned Rebels: And thar,
which hath agravared the Rebellion all this
while, and heightned much rhe ſpirir of the
1riſh, was the incroduRtion of the Scot,whom
chey hate in perfection above all people els ;
And intended laſtly the deſign ſpoken of in
our Parliament, to make an abſoluce Con-
queſt, and Nationall Eradication of them,
which hath made them ro make verrue of
neceſſity, and to be valiant againſt their
wills.
Peregrin.
Indeed I heard that Ac of ſaying the
1:ih Regiment, conſidering how the Mar-
queſles te Velada, and Malvezzs, and Dor
Alonſo de Cardenas, who were all three Am-
' baſſadours here for the King of Spazn at thar
time, having by reliance 1 upon the ſacred
Word and Letter of a King, impreſted mo-
ney, and provided ſhipping for their cran-
(pore, and bin at above 10000, Crowns
charges, I ſay this A& was very much cen-
ſured abroad,.to.the diſhonour of His Maje-
ty and our reprozc\;Þ.. ,
Patricius.
I am very ſorry co hear it, Well Sir, His
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Majeſty by His preſence having ſetled Scor-
land, was at his return to Londen received
with much joy and exultation, but though
he was brought in with a Hoſanna at one end
of the Town, he found a Crucifize at the 0+
ther : For at weſtminſter ther was a Remon-
ſtrance fram'd, a work of many weeks,
and voted in the dead of night, when moſt
of the moderat and well- choughred Mem-
bers were retired to their reſt, rein with-
as much aggravation and artifice as could
| be, the leaſt moat in Government was ex-
poſed to publick view, trom the firſt day of
His Majeſties Inauguratlon to that very
hour: Which Remonſtrance as it did no
£00d to the Publick but fill peoples heads
with doubts, their hearts with gall, and re-_
rard the procedure of all buſineſle beſides,
ſo you may well think it could expe& bur
cold entertainment with His Majeſty, who
hoped his great Councel,a ccording to their
ofcen deep proteſtations, had done ſome-
ching for his welcom home, that might have
made him the beſt beloved King'that ever
915 4M0nz1t his people,
Peregrin,
*"3, er Is no Government upon
4 ap ef cv, but is ſubjet to
Cor-
» a >» -
of
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corruption z there is no Court of judicature
ſo cleane, but ſome cobwebs may gather in
it, unlefle an A of Parliament could be
made to free and exempt men ſrom all in-
firmities and errour ; It cannot be denied,
but Scotland might have ſomething to com-
plaine of (though I chink leaſt of any) and
ſo leapt firſt into the pool! to be curd, and
what ſhe f/b'd beſides in thoſe troubled w4-
ters 'tis too well known : Enelandalſo no
doubt might have ſome grievances, which
his Majeſtie freely offered not onely to re-
drefle for the preſent, buc to free her of all
feares for the future, from falling- into re-
lapſes of thar kinde; but ro redrefle grie-
vances by 4rmes, by plunging the whole
countrey into an inteſtine warre, this makes
the remedy worſe then the malady, it is as
if one would go about to cure a ſick body
by breaking his head, or let him blood by
giving him a daſh on the noſe, it js as mad a
tricke as his was who ſer the whole Houle
a fire to roaſt his egs. Bur traly Sir, in my
opinion, his Majeſty at his return trom Scot-
land, might have juſtly expeRed ſome acts
of compliance and gratitude from his Parim-
ment, conſidering what unparallel'd atts of
| Srace he had pals'd before.
Patricins.
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reed kt. v0 oo Vis; |
His Majeſty did not reſt there, but com-
plied ſurther with them by condeſcending to
an act for putting down the ſtar-chamberConrt
the high Commiſion, the Court of honour,
nay, he was contented his own Privy Conn-
cell ſhould be regulated, and his foreſts
bounded not according to ancient Prerogative .
but late cuſtome ; nay further, he paſs'd a
Bill for the unvoring, and utter excluſion.
of the Spirituall Lords from the Parliament
for eyer, whereby it cannot be denied, bur
by the caſheering of 25 votes art a clap, and
by excluding the Reguſaut Lords beſides
(who ſubfiſt moſt by his grace) he did not a
little enervat his own prerogative. Adde _
hereunto that having placed two worthy
Gentlemen Biron and Lunsford Licutenants
of the- Tower, he remov'd them bath one
after; the other, and was content to .put
in one of their £leion + And laſtly, he
truſted them with his greateſt ſtrength of all,
with his Navie Royall, and call'd home Pen: .
#ingtos who had the guard of the narrow
Seas ſo many yeares. |
Peregrin. |
Truly Sir, I never remember to have
heard or read of ſuch notable acts of free:
- an
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ot all this ſuffice £
Patricius,
No, Bur they. demanded- all the Land
Souldiery and milicary ſtrength of the King-
ome to be diſpoſed of by them, and
o be put into what poſture, and in
bat Equipage, and under what Comman-
ders they pleasd 5 And this was the firſt
bing his Majeſty ever denyed them, yet he
ould have granted them this alſo for a 1;-
ited time, but that would not ſerve the
urn; Hereupon his Majeſty grew a little
ſenfible how they inch'd every day more
and more upon his Royall Prerogatives
_ And intending togo to his Town of Hull to
We bis Magazin (which he had bought with
s own money) with his ordinary train, he
was in a hoſtile manner kept out, Canons
mounted, Piſtols cocke, and leveld ar him,
But whether that unlucky Knight (Hotham)
did this out of his fidelzty to the Parl. or our
Notan apprehenſion of feare that ſome about
the King, being mov'd with the barbarouſ- +
neſſe of the ation would have piſtold him, I
will not determine,
Peregrin.
| Thaye read of divers affronts of this kinde
| | n that
ad confidence from any King : but would
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chell (hur her gates more than once againſt?
Henry the Great, and for the King now
regnant, they did not only (hat him our of
many of his Towns, but upon the gates of
ſome of them they writ in legible Chai
racers, Roy ſan Foy, ville ſans penr, a faith-
lefle King, a fearlefſe Towne. Yet in the
greateſt hear of thoſe watres, there wasSne-
ver any Towne retusd to let in her King, fl,
provided he came attended onely with his ff
ewn iraine; and beſides other people abroad,
I heard the Scor's nation did abhor that A&
at Hull, Bart I pray Sir go on,
Patricins. >
His Majeſty being thus ſhut eut of one
Towne, he might juſtly ſuſpect that an at-
tempt might be made to ſhut him in, in ſome
other ; Therefore he made a motion ro the
Yorke: ſhire Gentlemen, to have a gard for
the preſervation of his Perſon, which was
done accordingly. ButI am come to for- [ce
ward, I muſt go backe and tell you how the the
King was driven from Weſtminſter, When NHe
His Majeſty was return'd from Scotland he ÞÞ {ec
r<tir'd ro Hampton Courr, whence upon the ft
Lord Majors and the Cities humble follt- ir
citation, he came back to 7hite-hal to keep Fre;
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Tis Chriſtmas. Bur when the Bill againſt
Sinops was in agitation, which buſineſle
Baſted neer upon ren weekes, a crue of bold
Murdie mechanicks, and mariners, ' came -
offrom the Citie and ruffled before White-hal
W- End Y/eſtmenſtcr-hall,and would have violated
t- She Abby of Weſtminſter, ſo that for many
he 'ohts a Court of gard was forced to be kept
e- fr the body of that Church, (the chiefeſt
8, (44n#uary of the Kingdom.) Moreover, His
Majeſty having impeached ſome of the
Members of both Houſes, of High Treaſon,
and being denied to have them delivered up,
ſte went bimſelf co the Lower Houſe ro demand
them, aſſuring the Honſe they ſhould have as
dire and legall a triall as ever men had, But
- ſes it pleas'd God , they were not there, but
retir'd to London for refuge ; The Londoners
© Fprew ſtarke wilde thereupon, and notice be-
. Jing ſent to all the adjacent Counties, this
$ f:tof che Kings (though ir wanted no pre-
© Ecedents of former times) was aggravated in
* the higheſt degree that poſſibly could be.
1 FHence you may eaſily inferre, what ſmall
* Ffccuritie his Majeſty had at Fhzte-hall, and
ſvhar indignities he might have expoſed
nimſelf unto, by that which had paſs al-
' Frcady from the Rabble, ho had vilifted Ie
crie
ina kind of triumph, ' being garded by land
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cried tuſh at his proclamations, and diſgorg'
other rebellious ſpeeches with impunity
therefore he retird to Hampton Court (as we
read , our Saviour withdrew himclfe once fray
the multitude) thence ro Windſor Caſtlef
whence accompanying her Majeſty, with his
eldeſt daughter to the ſea ſide for Holland,
and having commanded rte Prince to attend
him againſt his recurn at Gree-w/ch, the Prince
had been ſurpriz'd, and brought to Londen,
had not the King come a little before,
Thence he removed to Yorke, where heMot
kept his Courc all the Sommer. | ie
But to returne to Loxaon, the very nextſhi
day after their Majeſties departure, cheſſſiri
Countrey abour, eſpecially Buckizzhamſhire Fave
being incited by the Citie and Parliament, þfh
came in great ſwarmes, and joyning withÞro:
the London mechanicks, they ruffled up andſÞfir
down the ſtreets, and kept ſuch a racket,
making the fearfull'ſt riot that ever I be-
leeve was heard of in Parliament time: fo
thoſe Members which formerly were fled
into the Citie, were brought ro the Houſe ſai
and water in warlike manner by theſeCham-
pions : After this, ſundry troops of horſe
came from all the ſhires near adjoyning to
the
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She Parliament, and Buckingham men were
viſe firſt, who while rhey expreſs'd their
weve to ( Hamden) their Knizht, forgot their
omfrorn oath to their Kixg, and in ſtead of tea-
le Bhers they carried a printed Proreſtation in
higheir bats, as the Londoners had done a lit-
|: before upon the Pikes point.
Peregrin.
This kept a foul noiſe beyond Seal re-
ember, to that upon the Rzalto 1y Venice',
et was ſung up and down, that a Mraſummer
oon (chough it was then m2dft of winter)
id raign amongſt the Englith, anc you muſt
hink that ir hatch made the Yerertian to
rink in his ſhoulders, and colook bur ill-
yourediy upon us, fince wee | have none
f his c#774n5. Bur: Sir, I heard much of that
| tort TIpray what was the ſubſtance
Wilts |
Patricius,
It was penn'd, and enjoyn'd by the Par-
ament for every one to take, and it con-
liſted of many patts ; the firſt was, to main-
an the cru Poteſtant Religion againſt all
opiſh innovations, which word Popzſh (as
on think) was ſcrued in ot purpoſe for a -
ſe £oop hole to ler in any other i7»ovation : the.
0 ſecond was to maimtaiy the Prerogative ana
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Honour of the King ;, then the power and pry
wiledge of Parliament ,, and laſtly, che puffs
priety and Liberty of 1he.ſubjcct; for threfſb
parts of this Proteſtation, the people up ann
down ſeem'd to have utterly forgotreſſt:
them, and. continue ſo ſtil], as if their conflw
ſciences had bin tied only to rhe 14:74, virſſud
the priviledge of Parliament, and never wafch
ther a poor people ſo beſotted, never wan
reaſon and common ſence ſo baffled -1n angſt
part of the world. th:
And now will I go to attend His MajeſtytM.
at Tork, where,as | told you before, bein/ca
loth co part with his Sword, (though he hago
half parted with his Scepter before) by defjan
nying the Parliament an indefinite- time «=
diſpoſe of the M1:11a, (alleadging thar a&Þcla
the zyord, fo the thing was new.) He ſendgme
forth his Commiſſions of Array,according thor
the old Law of Exgland, which declares ifcou
£0 be the andoubred Right, and. Royall SigYAr:
morie of the King, to armor diſarm any ſubcon
jec# : The Parliament {ends out clean coun-gre:
_ termands for executing rhe ſaid M/7:14, ſofbro
by this claſhing 'ewixt the Commiſſion offbro
Array and the Militia, the firſt flaſh of this mai
odious unnaturall war may be ſaid ro breakſthe
out. The pulſe of the Parliament beatsſÞthin
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yet higher, they ſend an_Admirall to the
WSca (the Earl of Yarwick) not only without,
bur expreſly againſt the Kings ſpecial com-
Sinand, They had taken unco them a Mili-
cary gard from the City for their protection,
-onfl without His Majeſties conſent, who by the
advice of the Lord Keeper and others, had
Icffered.them a very ſtrong gard of Conſtables
and other Officers to attend them, which
te Law uſually allows; yer the raifing of
that gard in Tor#-ſhzre for the ſafegard of His
Mzjeſties perſon, was interpreted. to be
ind/cavying of war againſt the Parliament, and
ſo made a ſufficient ground for them to raiſe
10 A739, £0 appoint a Gererall (the Earl of
tf Zſex) with whom they made publick De-
- aFclarations to live and die. And they afſu-
adYmed power to confer a new 4ppellation of
> tafhonour upon him, (Excellency) as it any
; ificould confer Honour but the King ! And this
i Army was to be maintain'd our of the mix
ab4con:ribution of all ſorts of people; fo a
un-Yorear maſſe of money and plate was
ſof brought into the Gnil/d- hall, the Semſtreſle
offfbrought in her filver Th:wble,the Chamber-
his] maid her Bodkiz, the Cook his Spoons, and
akfſthe Vintner his Bowles, and every one ſom- .
arstiing, co the adyancement of. {0 good 4
yel- work,
Wa8)-
- work, as to wage war dire&ly againſt thc
Sacred perſon of their Soverain, and pat the
whole Countrey into'a combuſtion,
gens + — PRwemnn.”
© Surely ir is impofhible that a rational
Chriſtian people ſhold grow ſo ſimple and
ſortifh, as to be fo far cranſporred, withour
ſome colourable cauſe, cherfore I pray tell
me'what that might be £
- @Patriciin.”
"The cauſe is made ſpecious enough, and
yarniſhed over wonderfull cunningly ; The
people are made to believe they are in danger,
and aprevention of that danzer is promiſed,
and by theſe plauſible ways the po ay s
mrouzht upon, and an affettion to the cauſe
' uſher din, by aggravation of this danger, as
"one wold draw a thredthrough a needles et:
_ This huge Bugbear Darger, was like a mon- |
| ſter of many heads, the two: chiefeſt were
thele. That ther was «plot to let in the Pope;
And to %.uſt the civil Government into a French
frame; It is incredible to think how the
Palpits up and down London did ring ofthis
by brainſick LeQurers, of whom ſom were
come from New- England, others wete
pick'd our of purpoſe, and ſent for from their
own flockinithe Countrey, to pofſeſte, of
Ec, rarhes
(49)
rather to poiſon the hearts of che Londoners,
to puzzle cheir intelleRuills, and co intoxi-
cat their brains by their powerfull gifts; It
was puniſhable to preach of Peace,or of Ceſars
_ Right, but the common ſubjeR of the pul-
pit was either blaſphemy againſt God, diſo-
bedience againſt the King, or incitements
co ſedition ; Good Lord, what windy frothy
ſtuff came from theſe fanacick brains ; Theſe
Phrenctici Nebulones (for King Fames gives
them no better Character in his (Baoiainey
AGev,) who may be ſaid ro be mad onr of
too much ignorance, not knowledg ; who
nevertheleſſe are come to that height of
prophaneſs and pride, that they preſume
to father all their doctrines, all their non-
ſenſe, raptures and ravings upon the holy
Spirit, Nor did the Pulpit only help co kin-
"| dle this fire, but the Preſſe allo did contri-
bute much ftlubble; Whar baſe ſcurrilous
Pamphlets were cryed up and down the
ſtreets, and diſperſed in the C.untrey *
Whar palpable and horrid /ies were daily
Printed « How they multiplied in every
corner in ſuch plenty, thac one might ſay
tuer was a ſwperfetation of lies, which con-
tinue unto this day One while che King
of Denmark was comming over from the
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Sound: Another while the King -of France'
had a huge Army abour Calas defign'd for.
England: Another white ther was an; Ar--
of 1riſh Rebels com ming over -with-rhe-
privicy of the Kin;
piſts armed in Lancaſhire, and divers reports:
of this nature: were daily blown up , and:
chough the Authors of them were. worth-;
liffeand mean futilous perſons, yet the re-:
ports. themſelyes had-thar creditias to be en-
High. Cours. ot.
Parliament. But thefe falfe rumors -pro-;; |
duc one pokrick effe& (and'it was the: end;
indeed for which they were diſpers'd) they.”
di& intimidat and fill che peoples hearts with.
certain'diand canvas'd in the
fears, and: diſpoſe of them to oP-roars -000!
fot ro part with money.
- Pereerin.
- E kn ow ther be ſundry ſorts of Feargs F
ther are Conſcientious Fears, and. ther are.
famnick Fears, ther are Puſillanimous Fears,
and ther are Politick Fears. The firſt ſort of;;
Fear: proceeds from guilt of Conſcience,
which turas often to Phrozcy, Fhe ſeconds
{ort
Another while a plot
rr cryed up and ors to burn. Londexs :1:
other while ther were fubcerranean invi--
Fs croups (at Regland Caſtic) muſtered-
under-ground in Fales,and thouyfands of Pe
| (51)
fortiof Fear may be call'd a kind of Chymes:
74, tis:fom ſadden ſurprizallor Eonfernatt-
oz atifing from an unknown cauſe. Puſellx-
vimons: Fear makes a mountain of 2a mole- -
bill; and proceeds from poverty of ſpirir,
and want of courage, and:is a 'paffion of ab-
je& and- degenerous minds, and may be
call'd Cowardsſe,; and this Fear is always ac-
compamed with jealonſie. Polztick fear, is a
created forg'd Fear wrought -1n anorther, ro
bring ſora defign about; And as we find
the' Aſtronomers (the compariſon is too
go0d)'do imaginſuch and ſuch ſhapes: and
circlesin'the Heavens, as the Zodtak, Equi-
netall, Coluress: Zones and Topigues with 0s
thers; though ther be no ſuch things really
in-nature, to make- their Concluſions good,
So the Polititian. doth: often deviſe: and in-
rent. falſe imaginary Fears,'ro make his
proceedings more plauſible amongſt. the
hily vulgar, and therby to 'compaſle. bis
ends: And as the Sunuſeth to appear far
bigger td 215m the morning then at noon,
whenhe is exalred ro his Meridian, andthe
: Ntezſon the Phrloſophers uſe to give, is the in-
;; terpoſtcion'of the: vapours which are com--
-1Jmonly:in-che lower Region, chrough which
Jvelook upon him (as we find a piece of -fil-
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Yer look bigger in a bucket-of water then ||
e}ſewhere) fo the *ofititiay uſes to caſt ſtrange iſ $
miſts of Fear, and fogs''of jealeufie before £| C
the ſimple peoples eyes, to make. the:idan- | tf
ger ſeem bigger :. But truly Sir, this15 one I &
of the baſeſt kinds of policy, nor can I bes || w;,
lieve -ther be any ſuch Polititians amongſt I fir
the Cabaliſts of. your Parliament, who pre-: || as
tendto be ſo buſte about Gods work, a Glo- ſljio
ricws Reformation, for you know ther 1s.4 | be,
good Text for it, that God needeth not the: pot
wicked man, he abominars to- be beholding [Ch
toliers to bring about his-purpoſes:- Bur: ſſciy
I pray Sir deal freely with me,:.do'you:1a-'FEaſ
magin' ther was' a deſig 198 £0 bring, +n--therFniry
Maſſ a2als* | STE bof: 04:f 23: (3 3 j6 be 4
Patricius, TATON- "the
* The Maſſe * ? You may ſay ther was a plot! =
to bring'in Mahomet as ſoon, to:bring:inithe!
Alchoran; or Talmud as. ſoon; - For 1 dare! = =
pawn my ſoul, the King isas: Cordiall: aFore
Proteſtant as any that breathes under his threeFÞere
Crowns, which beſides his -publick-deep'Fhe-
Proteſtations, and his conſtant quotidian ex-: aely
emplary: open practiſe, many - other; cor: eve
vincing private reaſons induce me. to berntly
tieve, and it is in vain to think the Pops canFtour
take footing here to any purpoſe _y aker
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-
wo -
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the Kings leave. You know as well as: T
Six; char of all che Reformed Churches in
Chriſtendom;'the Lutheran retains molt of
the Raman, both in- his poſitions and pra-
Qiſe, and comes much nearer to him then
we do, yet I have obſerved, thac from the
firſt day of his Reformarion, to this, He. is
as averſe, and -as: far off from Rome, as the
Brigideſt Calviniſt that is; And ſhall I chink,
| becauſe. ther are fom humble and hanſom
- Upoſtures, and decent veſtures rewvivedta our
{Church (for they were n-ver abotiſhed;,) be-
:iciuſe che: Communion table ſtands in the
- BEaſt end where it ever ſtood fince Chriſtia-
dr iniry came in all our Cathearalls, which ſhold”
;iſbe a rule toall inferiour Churches, chough
"the Seperarift cries it up molt falfly ro be an
tifl2)v4r7on + becauſe the Quren bath a fery
eiflimple: Capuchins (fewer tnen was allowed
e:Þy the M icrimoniall Capitnlations) whither
aForecireſomerimes : Becauſe Schiſmaticks
eFere proceeded againſt with more care; and
p ſie: Government of the Church born up
-=:Mtely with more countenince, ſhail I be-
r:Bcve ourofall chis thacche Pope muſt pre-
n3Þntly comein 2-thall I believe the weakneſs
0'Ft our REligion'to be ſuch, as co be (o eaſtiy
Kaken and oyerturn'd* Y-r I belieye cher
el & 3 Was
(54)
Was a pernicious plot to introduce a mew Re-
ligion, bur what I pray 2 not Pepery, but
Presbttry, and with it to-bring in the do@rine
of Buchanaz and Knox for civill government,
and fo to caſt our Church and Stare into a
Scots mould. E929 229; HIV L
2 2 "iPeregrim, == 12
IndeedT heard the Engliſh much derided
abroad for refizning their intelle&tualls- in
point of Religion to the Scots, whom from
Infidels they made Chriſtians, and Reformid
Chriſtians firſt, and now for the En2{ſb torun
ro them for a Religion, and that the Txifer-
mity & reformation ſhold proceed-from them,
having difdain'd us.formerly, what ail:
paragement is ir thinke you ro the Aelicar +
Church” This with other odd: traverſes; a
the eclipling the glory of the: King, and
bringing him back to a kind: of minoritie,
the tampering with his conſcience, 'I will
not ſay the ſtrainizg it 1o tarre, rhe depii-J
ving him of all kind of propertie, the de-ſ|
preffing of his Regall power, wherein'thel
honour of a nation conſiſts, and whick the
Engliſh were us'd to uphold more then-anyf]
other,for no King hath more awful artribats}
* from his ſubjecs, as Sacred Soveretgne, gri
cions aud moſftExcellent Majeſtic, nor aj}
Kin
(55)
Kidg 16 ofcen prayed for, for in your mor”
ning. Liturgie keis fot. times prayed for,
whereas other Princes are. mentioned þtic
, | once or twice at moſt in. eheir's: I ſay that
a | this; with interception of lerrers; ſome in-
: || civilities offered Ambaſſadors, and the bold
laviſh ſpeeches that were ſpoken of the
d | greareſt Queenes in Chriſtendome, and his
n | Miajefties late withdrawing his Royall pro-
mn | tection from ſome of his Merchant-Sub-
d | jzRts 18 other countreys, hath made the Eng-
of 5/> loſe much ground in point of eſteeme
j- | abroad, and to be the &ſconrſe, I will not
», | fay the [corne. of other people. They ſtick
{- ] not ro ſay; that there is now a worſe malagie
| faten pon their 272d, then fell apon their
as | bones about an age fince by the Sweating
d | feeknefſe, which was peculiar onely unto them
e, | and found them out under all Climes. O-
ily thers ſay, there is a pure aucarIgoriz among lt
-$ them, thee theyare turn'd to Wolves (as
&-f| you know ic is a common thing in Leplay)
he: & char che old Adage is verified in them,
beſj Home hamini lupas; Nay our next neighbofirs
ny give out; thac the ſaying was never truer
- then: now, Rex 4nglbrum, Rex Diavolorum:.
-Norisit a ſmall diſrepute to the Zn2hfh,
nj-:that che word Eavalrer, which 15an atcribire
08” ” 0 tht
> ns ” —,
(56)
chatno'Prince in Chriſtendome will diſdain,
andis the common Appellarion of the No-.
bilitie and Gentrie in moſt-parts of rhe
world;is now us'd, not onely in-Libels and:
frivolous P amphlets, bur in'publicke Par-'.
liamentarie Declarations, for a: rerme of re-
proxch, - But truely Sir, 'whar vou' have re--
lated couching the Pulpit and .the' Preſſe,
transformes-me into wonder, and I ſhould
want faith to.beleeve it, did:you nor ſpeak.
icupon. your knowledge ; but the Erglefh.
when they fall ro worke upon anew bumour,
uſe to oyerdoe all people, TEN
Parricius:
You hayenot yet the tiche of what I ould
give you, you would little think that Coachs:
men, and Feltmakers, and Weavers were:
permitted to preach up and. down without
controulment, and to vent their froth and.
venome- againſt Church and State, to cry.
_ downe our. Hierarchy and Liturgic, by-moſt
baſe and reviling ſpeeches.
Peregrine
' Touching your Lytureze, I have heardir
cenſur'd abroad by the regideſt Calviniſts of
Generva and Dort, yet I never heard any o-
ther Character given of it, but that it is a
moſt RY Pathetick, and perfet peece of
devotion,
(57) |
devotion; both-for the: matter -and* forme: -
of it, which'Þ have been-2 lirtle corions ro:
obſerve, Tr- begins wich ſome choiſe paſs: -
ſages of holy Scripture, .and -a :previous:
Declaration-or Monitory- ro excite us to:the:
worke in:hand 3 The firſt addreſle';;wee-
make-to God is by an humble and -joyne-
Confeffion which is appliable 'ro any: con:
ſcience, and comprehends in it all kind" of;
fins, Then followeth a pronuntiation- of -
Gods promiſes and proneffe ro pardon and: .
abſolve us 3 We goe on to the Lords Pray*
er, whictt having bin dictated by our Saviour
himſelf we often uſe, and is i aS. Amber
throwne in amongſt our -Frankimcenſe, to
make the Sacrifice more precious and plea-+
fing unto God; Then we proceed to ſom
choice Pſalms, and other portions of holy.
[| ſcripture taken tout of the old and new teſta-
ment 3 Then we fall ro the Symbole. of faith,,
whereof we-:make a ſolemn: joynt conteſt»
on in ſuch a poſture as fhews a readineſle:
and reſolution in us:to defend it : and ſo to:
the LZetany; wherein the poor penitent pec-
cant. {ſoul may be ſaid ro breath out herſelf
into the boſome of her Saviour by tender
ejaculations; by'panting groans,& eviſcerated
Ingeminations, andithere is no fin,-no rem-
RES ptaticn
(58)
ration ' whatever that humane frailty is
ſabje@ unto,buc you ſhall find a:deliverance
from is there,itis ſs fall of Chriſtian charizy,
that 'vhere 15 fo condition of people; but are
retembred and prayed for there. Then
\Wee proceed by holy alternarif inteclocuti-
ons (ivhereby wee heare our felves ſpeak
as well as the Miniſter) to ſome effecgall
ſhort prayers yz becauſe in long prayers the
minde is ſubje& to wander, as ſome Zelots
now a dayes-uſe to bring their Hearers into 1
Wilderneſe by their Prayers, and into: a
Labyrinth by their Sermons, Then gdewe
on tothe Decatogye, and if it be ina _Cithi-
arz/l, there istime enough for the Hearer to
- examine himſelfe, while the Muftck playes,
whereand when he broke any of Gods holy
Commandements, and ask particular for-
giveneſfle accordingly.inthe interyall ; Fhen
after other choice portions of Scripture, |
and paſſages relating ro our Redemption,
_ ad endeariog;unt@ us the merits of it,with a
more particular Confeſſion of our Faith,we
are diſmiſſed with' a Benedidion : So that
this Zitvrgy may be call'd an; Inſteumene of
many: ſtrings, whereon the fighing ſoul
fends up varions notes unto heaven: Itis 2
polie made up: of divers flowers, to: make
E293 it
te en. aw AS a6 om AX Ad - a6
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a " fa
ws l ; ; :
"WI _ — act 4 ao. ava dands. - a. ot. Pn. at pa Ont By: PU I LEY PO, WR” - 1 OY v =
(59)
it the more fragrant in the noftrills of God-
Now-touching your -Biſbops, I never knew
yet any Proteſtant Church but could be
content to have them, had they meanes 19
maintaine the Diguitze, which the Churches
of France with others have not, in- regerd
the Reformation began firſt among the peo-
ple,not at Com ,as here it did inEngl.For un-
lefle ther be ſom Superviſers of Gods houſe,
endowed with eminent authority to check
'the- fond fancies,and quench the falſe fatuous
fires of every private ſpirit, and ualeſſeir be
ſach: an authoriry that may draw unto it a
holy: kind of awe and obedience what can be
' expected but confuſton and Athei{rmre £ You
| know what became of the Iſraelites when
' the wonted reverence to the Ark, and the
Ephod, and-the Prieſt, began-to languith a-
- mongſft them-: For the braine of man is like
a garden, which unlefle it be. teaced abour.
with a wall or hedge, is ſubject ,you know
to: be: annoyed by all kinde of beaſts which
will be ready: to runne into -it:340-the braine
unleffe ir be'reſtrain'd and bounded- im holy.
things by rules of Qanonicall authoritie, 4
thoufand. wild opinibas, and: extravagance
fancies: will-hourely ruſh inco- ic: cjop- was.
there ever any field ſo ſnbjeR: to: produce
Cockle
Sts Ihr RU a ro A Ar AAAS. _.n. pegenatt A x Al ©
* T wv
»
. " 9 open a g-
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Cockle and Darnell, as'the human brairr is:
ragk- and ready to bring : forth" tares'of
Schiſm and Herefie of'a thouſand forts. un-
lefle afretthe firſt culture rhe ſickle of Au
wa be applyed to grub up al ſuch” hot"
x Weeds: NINE Jo
ba es, Patricins,” CES t
Yer this moſt antient dignity of Tifbipris is”
traduced-and vilified- by every ſhallow-pa-:
redperty Clerk, and not ſo much out of-a
crw-zeal,- as-out of envy thatthey are: not:
. the like, And- rouching our Liturgy, wher- ;
of you have bin pleas'd to. give ſo. exact-a
Character, -people are come to that height!
of impiery, that in ſom places ir hath bin”
drown'd, in other places burnt, in fom places!
707 in- pieces toſerve for the baſeſt aſes, *
nay it hath bin preached publickly inPulpirs;
That it is a-piece forg'd in the devils ſhop, amd" |
yet che impious foul-mouth'd Babbler' never
was ſo-much as queſtioned forit, Nor did--
the Church only eccho wich theſe: blaſphe>'"
miesz but the Preſſe-was as pregnant'topro»i;
duce every day ſom Monſter 'either againſt”
Ecclefiaſticall, or Secular Government..:F--
atn- aſham'd totell you how ſom bold-Pam-:
phlecers in a diſcourſe of a ſheet.or two,wold '-
preſume roqueſtion, to diſpute of, and" de:
—_ cer-
|
668
termini the :extent. of Monarchik- juriſdis:
ion, : what ſturdy doubts,what fawcy :2u4k:
ries theypury! whar odd-trivalous: diftinctiy<:
ons they/fram'd; .,Thar'the /King:ahough:the
was:Gaqds 1 Anointtd;:yer;he: Was: 03405: ef:
pointed > That he.bad'the coimandingy nov
the diſpoſong power :i That he was ſer ro 2wle.
over,,nat ito. over=rule the people !i-That he
was King by human horce,i not. by. divide
Charter: Tharhewas nor Kiog:by hb Gre
of Gad, ſo'muchas'by.the ſuffrage &t: the!
people 5. That be:was a Creatys 2904; grodlun
dion of the Parliament: Thiathe hakgoiiy>
plicitizruſt;; nor 'peculiar :properry; i any;
thing 3, That populus ef- potior: Regs 5:5 _
Grex lege, lex eſt: Rege potentiorn), :; Thr the
King was: ſingulis major, univerſis wither
(wherpsa ſucceſſive. Monarch++5 Hae Tr1-
{ zor eft--Fove;——Sometiimes'rhey » wold:
bring inſtances. fromthe. Sthtes of. Hollands;
ſomecimes: from: the 'Republick of :Yexzce,
and-apply them: ſo; ;mpertinently-:to- ablo-
lute and independant. Royalty 4 But-I fiad
that the diſcourſe: and:inferences of theſe
grand ::'-Stariſts";; were - bottom d upon
four falſe. foundations, w7z. That the King:
of whom:rhey ſpeak' muſt be eicher a Mznor,:
and 1dot, an infufferable Tyrant, or that' the. |
j5 King-
e123
_ narration 3-1 cold:you before, how the claſh» ig
| 7 63 F
Ki m they: mean, is BiriZine < /Nave; rol;
all which is: appliable;eirher- to:6ur. moſh nl
gracious and excellently: qualified: King or: ſm
co-his renowned Kingdoin, which thacks Fer, cl
always reputed an ancient-ſucceſſive Monari! JD
chy, govern'd by one Suprenmi undepoſeablefſcy
ated: independent: head; baving the Digniry;: [v3
che Royall Scare, and power of an Imperiall:
Crown, and being reſponfibleco none: buy!
ro1God:Aliiighty and his owtuconſciencendor;
his: ations/ ind: unto, whom a Body,:Polis:
ricke@mpdaetos: Prelates, Peers, Arey all
degrees ofi people is naturally :ſubje&sbuc
this isu cyenrcof, char cranſcendency;rhat ig!
es © ferivus} and folid T7427 at , rarher”
n1ſych a Notider: Difcoutie- as this 43:80
band GY DIRR- 2d] 1? *:5: 4Bor
-\\Bgv'l pray'ioxcaſe 1 ine 'Sir,".cha- E Have" $/n
Kept alidethusifromche road of my" main!
ing: twixurhe Commiſion of Array; and-the' wa
Mathis, puraliichings in: diſarray rhroughs' [the
ovetlic whole! 'Kingdonrz” The Partamenetſpriv
as they -hadtaken the firſt Milizary gard,> fo" hed
they began toarm firſt, and wasit:not whipty' mp
time then for: His Majeft rodoſome thing) es,
think youſyer he-effayed by allways imagis'' wt
nable- £0 prevent 2 war, and —_ rat
_—_ paſhve |
2. EIS - Þ» 2008 :
b;Ypaſſive fortitude, by conZ#aviop, and' &
b $i. How many oyertures for an accoms -
r: modaxgion did he make, © How many" Pro- |
1 Iclamations of pardon * How many e| |
j burclemen:
[ nefs and truch did-drop from "his
;: $ow7 (mperions; invincible pen, * which" witt-
: Yremain/npon' Record cq all ages, asfo many |
J
b, |
'Þ
*
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p;
Declarationsbrearhing ooebing
cy, fweernefs and truch did-dr
Monuments'to his eternall gloxys, *Yerfom.
ittſpicit-ſtepe ftlt in, berwepg his Grice;atid'
the-abufed Subject, for by the Perermprot ps
Order of Parliament (O'monſtrous *c in)
the {aid Proclamations of Grace, and other
His Majefties Declarations were prohipired
to be read;fezring that che'ſfrengrh and trath
40 Jochem” wold: have tiad'a vertye connblind
«oor rather anbewirche (fby Rebellion i 1h
\
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' | har deep - Proreftarjons. and holy” Vowes
.o [tid be reirerace thar the main of tis deligns, |
(was ro preſerve the tru Proteſtant Retivion,
«the known Lawes of the;Eand, and the juſt -
6 Fpriviledges of Parliament? How often, did -
3 fie dehort and woo the Ciry of Londen (his
$6: mperialt Chamber) from ſuch violent. cour--
»\Jfes, ſo char ſhe may be juſtly upbraided with
ite ſame- words, as the Pronce of peace. up- *
traded: Zernfalers withall'> Zondon, London,
aL BD TULLEC How
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_ the ProtefFour of the Law, and Fountain off
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Hemoficn wold 1 have gathered thee, as 4ben
doth her chickens, under her. mlngs, Jet. thu
wouldſt not 2... RES. 90
How ofren did he deſcend. to acknon- 4
bs the. manner of demanding the oze auntſſ;+1
ang gen rpg his, publick Remonſtrarſ'£
and if ther.,was-an errour in the ;pro-| 4
eons how oft did he deſire his Great: 2:
Councell .co dire& him ia a .courſe how to}: i|
g0.0010 the:Empeachmear * which they ne-ſ| 41
. yer did, but wolg. reſerve the: priviledge tof-þ
fhrmelees r0 be judge and Patye in
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ek Your Parliament prote&t high * Tres ti
Gs ?"Lam ſure.che charafter of an Ambaſ-
our cannor, which, the lace French Am-ſ -
baſſadour (who for his time play'd his Cards-ar1
more cunning than ever Count - Gondomw [jet
_ did) knew well; and therefore, as 1-heard[ſ'thi
' ſon-French men ſay, he got Letters of Re-j-8
vocation. before his defigned, time : bur itÞvi
ſeems ffrange to me, that the King who i
uſtice, cannot have the benefic of the Lav
im(elf, which the meaneſt of his vaſſalsÞ
can claim by right of inheritance : *TisÞnit
trange, I ſay, chat the Law (hold beJ&
a dead, lercer to him who is the Life of theofr
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has but-that-far. omiſſion of- ſome»piin-
-Rillio in thefdrm of rhe Proceſfs,the chargs
of high Treaſon_ſhold he ſa flighely: way'd;
| ſpecially Treaſon of ſa nniverſgll a.concern-
d--mene, thar-it-may be; calkd a complicapipn
(of many Treaſons ; for if-in eyery petry
>| Scarezir be High Treafon to treat only with
«|: 2ny' Forrein: Power .wichout the. priyity- of
ofl- the Prizce, it. maſk needs be Treaſon of a
| higher nathre:4#ysly ts bring them ins And
of]. hereaf }conld alleadge- you many pregoanc
inſtances, +ancient.and modern, bur: that: I
. | donot deſire to 0 interrupr you in 1 your rela-
I ions! TASTE)
-J- Ew Patrigittss
1 The podiniivn, as & rold you befais;
d -#med apace, it wasnot fitting then His Ma-
x Yes hold fic idle 5 therfote. he : fummons .
thoſe *Nobles and others, who bad an im-
-mediace relation untg him by. Offce or Ser-
vice; to-arcend: him ar Tork, according to
their-particylar obligation and oath: : Bug ic
fſcems:4he Parliament affumed power to-di-
#pence' with: thoſe oachs.;- and: excyſt-:thejr
Atendafice ; which diſpenſation prevail'd
Switch ſom | (zender) ':confeiences ; yer the
Great: Sed! poſted-to Contr, and after i it.moſt
Ie nn oy N6bles of the Land, with'the _—
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of the Gentry, and many of the prime Mem?
bers of the Commons Houſe ; fo that were
it not for- the /ocall priviledge, the Parlia-
* ment for number of Members, might be
. Faid to be ever fince about the King: Theſe
Nobles and Gentlemen reſenting "Vis Ma-
jeſties caſe, and whar praices cher were on
foot to alter the Government both. of
Church and State, not only. adviſed His
Majeſty toa royall war for defence of. his
Crown and - Dignity, bpt contributed yery
chearfully, and have ſtood conſtant ro > the
work ever fince. |
Pereorin,
They have good reaſon for ir, for TY
fecurity of rhe Nobility and Gentry. de-
pends upon the ſtrength* of the Crown, 0:
therwiſe popular. Government -wold ruſh in
-like a torrent upon them. . Bur ſurely. thoſe
Nobles, and thoſe Parliament: Gentlemen
and others, ſom -of whom 1 underſtand,
were reputed the wifeſt and beft weight
-men for experience and parts thorowont
the whole Kingdom, and were cryed up in
other Parliaments to be.the moſt zealous
' Patriots for the propriety and freedom off
the Subje&t, wold never have ſtuck ſo firm-
\
the
ly to His egety, had they not known - viſe
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bottom of hik deſi Sn, that if 'was: far fro
hischodg hts to bring i inthe Pope ori French
Government; 'for- therby: they'ſhold have
becrayed rheir own Paneeey'y. ale mage
Sens chi [dren flaves. -
Patricius,
'To my knowledge, theſe Nobles ai
Getiiinei are '(ti]] he very ſame as they
were in fofther Parliaments; wherif” they
were ſo cryed wp' for rhie' trueſt loyers of
their Country, and beſt Common: wealths-
men; yet now they are branded. and yored
tobe Seducers, and Traytors, becauſe ac
cording to cheir oathis 4tid conſcientts, they
©} tdbere co the King their Maſter and Lieve-
Lord, for maintenanice of that Religion they
"|| were baptized and bred in. Thofe moſt Or-
Us thodox and painfall Divines, which till this
Parliament began were accontited the prect-
ſeſt ſort of Ptoteſtants; are now cryed down
; || tor Papiſts, though they continde tilt che
Ol very ſame men, both for -opifiions--ant&
preaching, and afe tio more Papiſts'thahn F
am a Pythagorean. fn fine, a tru Bngliſh Pro =
Dy teſtant is put now in the ſame ſcale with'a
Papiſt, ahd made Syhonytna's, ' And craty
| beſe unhappy Schifmaticks could not de-
"| vife tow ro caſt a greater infamy opon the
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Enoliſh Proteſtanc than they. have done of
late by theſe monſtrous impucations ; they
wold faſten upon- him {uch opinions which
never enired into his thoughts, they wold
know ones heart better than himſelf, and ſo
would be greater Kardiognoſticks chan God
Almighty. - |
But -to- draw to a concluſion ; The "I
liaments Army mulciplyed apace in Lozaon,
the Kings butſlowly in the North, fo that
when he diſplayed his | Royal Standard at
Nottingham, his Forces were not any thing
conſiderable, fo that if the. Parliaments Ge-
merall (Eſſex) had then advanced towards
him from Northampton, he had pur him to a
very great ſtraic ;' chey- encreaſed ſomthing
at Derby, and Stafford, but when he was
come'to Shrewsbury, rae Welch-men came
running down the mountains in ſuch multi-
tudes, 'thatheir example did much animate
the Engliſh; ſo that his army in lefſe thana
month chat the
bury, came -to. near upog .wenty chouſand
Horſe and Foot;. not long before, the Ne
phew Princes came oyer, and the firſt enr
counter Prince &wpert.bad with che Parlis-
ments Horces was at #orreſter, where he de--
feared the flower of their Cavalry, and gave
them
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them a ſmart blow. Arc Shrewsbury His Ma-
jeſty rooka reſolution to march with His
whole Atmy towards Londen, but: after ſe-
ven days march he underſtood the Parlia-
. ments Forces were within fix miles {ide-long
of him, and-fo'many: miles he went, our of His
road ro find them out, and facethem : Up-
on Sunday - morning he was himſelf be-
times upon Edge- Hill, wher the: Enemies
Colours plainly appear'd in vale before Kez-
top; it was paſt two in the after-noon be-
fore all his Infancery could get to the. bot-
tom, who upon fighr of the Enemies Co-
lours ran as merrily down the Hill, as if they
had gone to'a Mortis dance. So His Majeſty
himfelf being Gezeralifimo, gave command
the great Ordiance ſhold fiye for a defrance,
ſo the battell began, which laſted above
three houts, and as ſome French and Datch
Commandetrs' (who were engagd ' in the.
| Fight) told me, they never remenibred to
have ſeen a more furious batrail for the time
!n all the German wars. Prince Raperr pur-
ſued rhe Enetnies Horſe like a whicl-wind
near upon three miles, and had ther bin day
enough, when he came back to the Intan-
terie, in all probability a totall defeat bad
bin given them : So chat the ſame accident
Ly - may
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may be (aid to fall our here, as happe ned-if/
chac famous battell ar Lews, Henry the
chirds time, where the Prince of Wales (at-
terwards Edward the firſt) was ſo eager, and
went ſo far (by exceſle of courage) -from
the body of the Army in purſuance of the
Londoners , that. it was the farall cauſe- of
che loſſe of that mighty batrail. "His -Maje-
Ky (to his deſerved and never-dying-glory)
comported himſelf like anottier Ceſar all
the while,” by riding about and encouraging
the Souldiers, by expoſing his perſon otten
ro the reach of a Musket-buller, and lying
in the field all that bleak night in his Coach,
Notwithſtanding that many lying Pam-
phlets were purpoſely printed here, co make
the world believe thar he had retir'd him-
ſelf all the rime of the fight ; what partiall
| reports were made in the Guild: Hall ro the
Londonets, and by whar perſons, (W. and
Strode) Tam aſhamed to tell you: Bur that
His Majeſty was vicorious that day (a- Cay
which I'neyer thoyght to haye ſeen in -Epg-
land) ther. be many convincing arguments
co prove its for beſides the great odds of :
men which fell on their fide, and Cannons:
they loſt, ſom af their Qrdnance were nayld
by the Kings Troops the pexx marging alter!
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in the very face of their Army, Moreover »
the King advanc'd forward the next day ro
his former road, and took Bazbury preſently
after; but the Parlamenteers went backwards,
and ſo from that day to this, His Majeſty
continueth Maſter - of the field, Tis
tru, that in ſom places, as at Farnham, win-
cheſtex, and Chicheſter, they have prevail'd
ſince, but no conlidefable parr-of the Roy-
all Army was ther to make oppoſition ; and
I bluſh co cell you, how unworthily the Law
of Armes was violated in all choſe pla
CES»
Pereerin.
Good Lord, how can the ſouls of thoſe
men thar were in the Parliaments Army art
Keinton Battell, diſpenſe with the Oarhs
of Supremacy and Allegeance, beſides the
I 7roteſtation you ſpeak of, they had taken
[0 preſerve the Perſoy, Honour, and Prero-
2ttive of the King, when they thus aQually
bandy againſt his Perſe, and appear in
bactel with all che engines of hoſtility againſt
-hime
Patricins.
-. Iwoldbe loth to exchange conſciences
with them, and prevaricate ſo palpably with
God Almighty z Touching the Cavalers,
F4 they
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they may be ſaid to com ly with their Is |
ties both towards God and their King ACcor-
ding to the Qaths you mentions More:
over, ther was a firong AG? of. Parlinintus
(for their ſecurity) which was never as much
as queſtioned or controverted, much: lefſe
ſuſpended or repeal'd : But-always tdod,
and yet ſtandsin as full validify-and force,
25 it was the firſt day it was Enacted. 'and as
much binding to an univerſal! obediefice,
which Act runs thus : f
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MOAT TTY
nOftobris Anno antecimo 'Hen-
1 ww. La i Hi. be dS OC nerd
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Tis Ordained, Enacted, and Ffta-
bliſhed by the King Our Soverain
© Lotd, by the Advice and Affent of
the Lords Spirituall atid 'Tetriþorall,
and the Commons in this 'preſent
Parliament Affembled,and by Autho-
| Pity of che ſame, That from hence-
* [forth rio manner of perſon or perſons
| whatſoever he or they be, that attend
upon the King and Soverain Lord of
this Land for the time being 1 his
perſon, and do him tru and faichfull
: [ſervice of Allegiance inthe ſame, of
he he in- other places by his Corg+
mane
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mandment, i in his wars wichio this:
Land or wichour : Thar for the ſaid
Deed, and tru duty of Allegiance,
he or they bein no wiſe Convict or
attaint of High Treaſon, nor of other
offences for that caule, by Act of Par-
liament or otherwiſe by any, procelſe
of Law, whereby he or any of them,
ſhall ioſe or forfeit Life, Lands, Te-
nements, Rents, Poſleſſians, Heredi-
raments, 'Googs, Chattels, or any 0-
ther things : : Butco be for that Deed
and Service utterly diſcharged of any
Vexation, Trouble or lofs,. And if a-
ny Act or Acts, or other proceſſe . of
the Law hereafter , cherapon- for
theſame happen to be made contrary
rothis Ordinance, That then that, Act
_ or Acts,or other proceſſe of the Law,
whatſoever they ſhall be, ſtand and
utterly void. Provided alwrayes thatno
prrione or perſons ſhall take-any *
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nefir or: advantage by'ch is Act -wWhich
ſhall hereafter decline cheir ſaid Allegi-
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Peregrin.
This is as plain and fair as can be for ſecu-
ring both the Perſoz and Conſcience of the
Cavalier, but was ther ever any A ar
Oath, or any thing like an Oath that ob-
lig'd Engliſhmen to be tru unto, or fight for
the Parliament ?
27 Pati icins,
Never any, but theſe men by a new kind
of Metaphyſicks haye found out a way to ab-
ſtrat the Perſoz of the King from his office,
to make his Soveraigntie a kind of Platonick
14a hovering in the aire, while they viſibly
attempt to aſſaile and deſtroy his Perſon
and Progeny, þy ſmall and great ſhot, and
ſeek him our amopgſt his life- Gard with fire
and ſword ; yer they give out , they fighr
not only nor ag4inf him, hut for him, and.
that zhetr army is more loyall unto him than
his owne 4; who, they ſay, fighc only for.
the name Kzrg, though they have his per-
lon realy amongſt rhem, commanding and
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direting : Thus they make Hm: a ſtrange
kind of Ampribium, they make in one inſtant
a King and no King of the ſame 1ndividy.
#7; a power which the Caſuifts affirme God
Almighty never aflumed ro himſelf,zo doe a-
zy thing that implies a contradidion,
= Peregritl, 2
| Noble Sir, you make my heart to pant
within me, by the Pathetick relation you
have been pleas'd to make mee of theſe fach-
full cimes 5 Bur one thing ſeems to me to be
no lefſe then a miracle, bow his Majeſtie hath
beene able to-ſubſiſt all this while, confide-
ring the infinite advantages the averſe partie
hatch had of him ; for they have all the rena-
ble places and townes of ſtrength, both by
land and {eas They have the Naw? roall,
they have all the Amunition and Armes of
the Ctown, they have all the Impoſts and
Cuſtoms, Poundage and Tonnage (which
they levie contrary to theit former Proteſta-
tion before the Bill be paſs'd) They have
the Exchequer at rheir deyorion, and all the
Revenue of the King,Queen,and Prince, and
laſtly, they have the 'citie of Zondop, which
may be eall'd a Magazin of money and-men,
where there is 2 ready ſupplie and ſaperfla-
itie of all chings, chat may feed, ws,
make
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make men gay to- put them in heart and re-
ſolution : Truely \confidering all theſe ad-
vantages,with divers others an their {ide,and_
the diſadvantages onthe Kings, it turnes me
into a lump of aſtoniſhment, how bis Maje-
tie could beare vp all this while, and keep
together io Dany \AATWIGh, and be ſtill maſter
of the FI8IG 1
Petrie he. 1,
REM" Sir, its; W* of, THE for won-
derment, and we myſt alcribe PE principally
to God Almightie, ,yÞþo.15 the. Pratectous
of his Anointed; fot hjs hand harh manifeſtly
appear 'd:19 the conduct gf his affixes; Hee
uh-becn the Pilor,. who. hach ace ac che
telmg eyer lance chis Korme began, and will
we hope. continue .tq.ſteer his courſe cill he
watt hiaa co ſafe harbour 2gaing;Adde here-
unto, thar'his Majeſty for his own Parts hath
| beene wonderfully ſtirring, and indefatigable
both for his ; body.and minde ; Ang what.no+
table things H E R Majeſty hath-dawe, and
what ſbe hath ſaffered, is fitter for Chroni-
ce, then ſuck a ſimple Diſconrſe.. . .
Hereunto may be Sd befides, cha bis
Majeſtie hath three -parcs of fauce of the
Peeres, 3nd Prime Generie of the Kingdom
firme yaco him , and they will veacuce hard
before
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before they will -come'tindet "4 popalar gol
vetrimenit and / mechanical ' corporations) &Þ
let in Knox or Calvis" to undermine this
Church, and bring i in: rheir TO, ſtool of
Repentance, Seen ps
nh Pirefrin. £..6-3' - 2
Truely Sir, amobgft other Cohntheps,1 n
extreamly long'd to fee England. and Þ ain
no ſooner come, bnt TI: amt ſurfeired- of her
already, I'doubt the'ofd Ptophecie rottehins
this Iſland is come now'to bevetified, Thin
the- Churchman was; tie :Lamjer is; and: the
Sonldier (hdll be.” Lam afraid 'thie Engliſh
have ſeete'theit beſt dayesy” for I find'@ge-
nerall kind of infatwation, a torall- Eclipfe
of reaſon amongſt moſt of them; ana” com:
monly # generall infatuation precedes the! per-
dition of 4people'; like afifh, char” parriflet
firſt in the 4% ; Thetefote 1 willzrifle up
my baggage and over again, afrer T have oh
joyed you ſome dayes, and received 8
: Patch. | Sho?
Dear Sir, If you ſeriodfly rele t to tolls
the Seas 4gaine ſo ſoon,' 'T-may Charice beare
you company,for a5 youhave fince rhe ſhort
time of your ſojourn here judicioufly obſer:
ved a national detection of reaſon in the peos
ple
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ple of this 1ſlaxd, which makes her ſo ave
in drawing on her own ruine ; ſo by longer
experience, and by infallible Sympromes I
fiad a ſtrange kind of Yertigs to have ſeized
upon her, which I feare-will turne co the fal-
{ling ficknefſe, or ſuch a frenzie that will
.4 {make ber to daſh out her own braines: Nor
+ flare ber miſeries,I feare,come yer'to the full;
& iti the method of the Almightie, when he
5 pleaſes to. puniſh -a people, co begin with
44 | roddes,- to goe .on with. ſcourges, and if they
« | will not do, he /hath: Scorpions. for them -:
if Therefore, I will breath any. where ſooner
#: | then here, forwhat ſecuritie or contentment
fa | can'one receive. in thiag.:Countrey, where |
ns | Religion and Juſtice, the +two grand Dorique _
4 | Columnes which . ſupport every State, are
4 | fallen down. £ which makes all conditions of
1 | men, all /profeflions and trades to: go here
1- | daylie to .utter ruine,-. The Charchman
at roms every 'day. more deſpicable, -as if he
ad no- propertie-in any thing, nor/is there
- || any wayleft him to recover his Tithe, but
ſe || by coſtly troubleſome ſures. -The Civilian,
re | a brave learned profeſſion, hath already made
r{ | his laſt Will; And the Common Lawyers caſe
r- | 'S little better 5 The Courizer cannot get his
x || Penſion 5 The Geatlermgy canngt recover bis
op | | IENLS
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before they will -come'undeta popilarg 00 We!
vetrimennt and : mrechanicall corporattons,: oh 1n
let in Kvox or Calvin to undermine thif
Cburch; and bring i int their” _— ſtool of
Repentance,
Pirtrin, 24-25% . Sal
Truely Sir, amotigft other Cointvep/1 m:
extreamly long'd to ſee England, and T ant jj *tt
no ſooner come, bat Þ amt ſurfeiced of her It
already, Idoubt rhe'old Ptophecie rowthing
this Iſland is come now to be'vetified, "Eh 7"
the- Churchman was; the :Zawjeris; and: the |
Sonlder hl be. Jak "ala hy Engliſh | T
have ſeene'theit beſt dayesy" for I find'#ge- |þ
nerall kind of infutwition, 'a torall-Eclip c C2
of reaſon amongſt moſt of them ;' and” com: Þf ©
monly # general infatuation precedes the! per- C
dition of apeopte; like a fill, char paurri ech | fa
firſt in the head ; Thetefote I will: erulle up |
my baggage 2nd. over again, after T have en- I ©
joyed you ſome dayes, and received yout Þ} 5!
Gommands: |
2 | Pabhidtdi: al e' ar
Dear Sir: If you ſertodfly: <eſolve ts ctolſe | Þ
- the Seas 4gaine ſo ſoon,'T-may Charice beare a
you conipany,for a5 youhave fince' rhe ſhort
time of your ſojourn here judicioufly obſer:
ved a national defeAion of reaſon in rhe peo»
ple
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ple of this 7/xd, which makes her ſo aQive
in drawing on her own ruine ; ſo by longer
+ experience, and by infallible Sympromes I
it find a ſtrange kind of Yertige to have ſeized
': Yupon her, which I feare-will tarne co the fal-
{ling ficknefſe, or ſuch a frenzie that will
3 make ber todaſh out her own braines: Nor
+ {| are ber miſeries,l teare,come yer to the full;
« $Itis the method of the Almightie, when he
5 pleaſes to. puniſh-a people, co begin wich
is | roddes,: to goe .0n with. ſcourges, and if they
« | will not do, he 'hath: Scorpions for them -:
4 | Therefore, 1 will breath any. where ſooner
: | then here, for:whar ſecuricie or contentment
: | can-one receive. in tliat-:Countrey, where
Fl Religion and 1uſftice, the itwo grand Dorique
| | Columnes which ſupport every Stare, are
x | fallen down.* which makes all conditions of
p
_ 2 >
men, all -profeflions -and trades to: go here
- | daylie to - utter ruine,-. The Charchman
g | grows every 'day more deſpicable, as if he
had no-propertte-in any thing, nor'is there
any way left bim to recover his Tithe, but
« | by coſtly troubleſome ſures. :The Ci/2#lian,
- || 4 brave learned profeſſion, hath already made
# | his laſt Will; And the Common Lawyers caſe
: | iS little better 5 The Courtzer cannot get his
5
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high-band. of ##xerpicd payer, ar-elfahe
paovrengnt jeſabeavily aficls'dor plandrad |. |
tþr-heis diahled copay thert.ia ;:Alkind
of Gameree hath domsſtick.and ; forreig- vid
bly. decayes; and falls more 28d -more, intd
the bands af Hangers (torche:no {mall dif-
honour of: che : wiſedome: of; | this;:Ny-
i108) nor-08n1the Tradeſenaui:; recover izhis
Hebts, Parliamentary :Pratections; £i6t-
ae Bil en gre us Shad; iis
:4:8583ter.priviledge now ta{bs:;a:fagrhg
tatbe meaneftaf on re 7 hy
he: of the Kings Bed chamberiProwiſes
AWAY from their- maſters; and-again |
_-fathers intent curn ſlouldigtss; 0d. Gok as
-ney, which is the ſqui;oh/ trade; $1 baletie
-Gnce-thabeginning :of this:;Parhameds; 4
Heme iscither conveyed: to'ther Ede the
Seq-ar þuried under ground jwcence | avs
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3.hor-dares th -npob'che:Tir | wi
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& mainly endeayowring to bring her in agar?
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: lexft intimation of the ſenſe of the lowet
''Houſe "is "ſufficient to enjoyne him the
*cohtrary, ſo that now, more thenever, it
may be ſaid here, —— Terras Aftres reliquit..
—-peace alſo bath rov'd up and downe this
Hand; and: canfiot get 4 place to lay het
- head on 1, the hoped to have had eatercain-
ment in- Tork- ſhire by the agreement of the
beſt Gentlemen in the Countrey z but an
Ordinance of - Parliament beat her our
_ of doores z Then ſhe thought to reft in
"Chefbire, and by a ſolemne Covenant ſhe was
promis'd to be prefery'd ther, the principal
Agents of that Covenant having proteſted
every one upon the word of a Gentleman,
and as they did deſire to profper,both them-
ſelves, their renants and friends, ſhold trit-
ly obſerve it z buc the like 0rd:»ance of Par-
lament battered down that Agreement:
Then ſhe thought ro take footing is the
Weft, and firſt in Dorcerſhire, then in Corn-
walland Devonſhire, and by the holy tie of
the blefled Sacrament ſhe was promiſed to
be preſerved ther ; but another Ordinance
of Parliament is purſuing her; to difpenfe
with the Commiſſioners of the ſaid Agree- ;,
menc for their Oaths: Laſtly, His Majeſty
tho- og
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thorowout the whole Land , but the fitri-
ous, phrentique Schiſmaticks will have none
of her ; for as one of them (beſides a' rhou-
ſand inſtances more) preach'd in one of the
moſt populous Congregations abour the
Ciry, 1t were better that London ſtreets ran
with bloud, and that dead carkaſſes were piled
. up as high as the battlements of Pauls, than
peace fhould be now brought in. And now that
Peace is that out, Learning 1s. upon Point of
deſpair, her Colledges are become- Cotrts
of Gard, and Mars lieth in Mercuries bed,
Honour alſo, with her Court, lieth in the daſt 3
the Cobler may confront the” Knight , the
Beor the Baron, and ther is no judicial way of
ſatisfation ; which makes Monarchy fear ſhe
hath no long time of abode. here. Pxblick
Faith alſo, though ſhe had bur newly ſet up
for her {elf, is ſuddenly become Bankrupt,
and how could ſhe chooſe * for more of-the
Kingdoms treaſure hath bin ſpent. within
theſe. thirty moneths, than was-ſpent'in
four-ſcove yeares before z bur ſhe hopes 19
Piece up her ſelf again; by the raines of the
Church ; but ler her take' heed of rbat,
for. thoſe goods have bin farall to- many
thouſand families in chis Kingdom*” yet
the thinks much, that chofe publick _—
ER. a EEC... 7% oe - 7 - TY
(83)*
which were given to ſuppre
on((in Ireland) ſhold be employed to main-
tainanother rebellion (in England:) And
- laſtly, methinks, I ſee Religion in torn _rag-
oed weeds, and with Aubberd eyes: fitting
upon weeping» Croſſe,and wringing her hands;
0 ſee her chiefeſt Temple (Panls Charch)
where God Almighty was us'd to be ſerv'd
conſtantly thrice a day,and was'the Renidez-
vouz, and as it were the Mother Church,
ſtanding open. to receive all commiers-an
ſtrangers, to be now ſhut up, and made only
a thorow-fare for Porters; to ſee thoſe ſcaf-
folds, the expence of ſo matiy thouſand
pounds, to lie rotting z. to ſee her chiefeſt
lights like co be extinguiſhed ; to ſee her fa-
mous. learned Divines dragg'd to priſon;and
any air of the benefic of -the Com-
mon. Law, their inheritance : Methinks, I
fay, I ſee Religion packing up,and preparing
to leave this Iſland quite, crying our, chat
this is. Countrey firter for Atherfs than
Chri#1ans to live in; for God Almighty is |
here made the greateſt Malignant, in regard
his Houſe is plunder'd mote than any:Ther is
no Court-lefc to reform hetefſe, no Courc
ro puniſh any Church Officer,and to make
him artend his Cure, fat Court to puniſh
"SET et* . - 8 For-
_ -
ſe one rebell{Z
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(84)
Fornication, Adaltery, or Inceſt : Methinks 1
I -hear Her cry out againſt theſe herGrand Re-. |
formers(or Refiners rather)that they have put
diviſion 'twixr all degrees of perſons.' They
have put diviſion *rwixt husbang:and wife,
"ewixt mother and child : The ſog'feeks_ his
fathers bloud in open. field,' one: brother.
ſeeks to cut the others throat; they. have |
pur diviſion 'twixt maſter and ſervant,” ewixt
Land-Lord and Tenant ; nay, they. have. a
- long time pat a ſea of ſeparation * ewixt King
and Queen; and they labour more and
more to put diviſion *wixt the Head and the
Members,'twixt His Majeſty and his: politi-
call Spouſe, his Kingdom: And laſtly, they
have plung'd one of the ftouriſhingſt King-
doms of Europe in a war without end; for
though a Peace may. be /plaiſter'd over for
the time, I fear it will be. bat like a fire co-
ver'd with aſhes, which will break our again,
as long as theſe fiery Schiſmaticks have any
ſtrength in' chis Iſland; ſo that all the pre-
| miſſes confidered, if T: avk or Tartar, or all
the infernal ſpirits and Cacodemons of hel bad
-brokenin amongſt us, they could not have ||
done poor England: more miſchief. Sir, I ||
Pray you excule this homely imperfec rela-
"ow, [ have a thouſand things more to
impart
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;mpart unto/You when we may breathe freer
dirgfor here weare come to that flayery,thar
one is in danger to' baye his very thoughts
plundered z'Therfore if you pleaſe ro'accepr
of 'my- company, I will over with you by
#- Gods help, fo ſoon as it may ſtand with your
' conveniency, but you muſt nor diſcoyer me
ro be an Engliſhmaen,abroad : for ſg I may be
jeer'd-ar and kicker in the ſtreets; I will go
under another name,and am fix'd in this re-
ſolution;never'to breathe Bzgl:ſþ aire again,
untill che Xie recovers his Crown, and the +
People the right aſe of their Fericraniums,
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A DISCOURS, or PARLY,
Continued betwixt
Patricius and Pereprin,
Upon their landing in France, touching the
| civ1l Wars 0 "England and Ireland,
Peregrin.
=——zEntle Sir, you are happily ar-
BIR rived on this ſhore z we are
now upon firm ground, upon
the fair Continent of France's
yweare not circymſcrib'd, or
coopt. up within the narrow
: | bounds of a rhumatick 7ſazd 3 we haye all
© | Evrope before us. Truly I am nota little
:-N glad cro-haye ſhaken hands with that tum-
{ || bling Element the Sex; And for England, 1
: I never intend to- fee hier again in the mind 1-
- Yamin, unlefſe it beia a' Map ; nay, 7» fats:
* £ {v0 munc,, while this Fattien reigns, bad T
jefc
(90)
lefr one eye behind me, I ſhould hardly re-
turne thither co fetch ic ; therefore-if I be
miſſing at any time,never look for me there,
| There is an old Proverb, From a blacke Ger-
24n, a white Italian, 4 red Frenchman, 1 may
adde one member more, and, from 4 Round
headed Eneliſhman, The Lord deliver us.
4 ha often Croſſed theſe Seas, and 1
found my ſelf alwaies pitifully fick,T did e-
ver and anon tell what Wood the Ship was
made of ; but inthis paſſage I did not feele
the leaſt motion or diſtemper in my humors:
for, indeed I had no time to taink on fick-
neſſe, I was ſo wholly tsken up, and tran-
ſported with ſuch-a pleafing conceir, to have
tefr yonder miſerable Iſland. |
2:15: Pereerin.,”
Miſerable Iſland wideed. ; 'for, F inks
Fen was never ſuch a ryrannje exgrcifed i in
any. Chriſtian Countrey under. 54
tvrannie tharextendsnot onely to the 404,
| bur to the b7aine alfo' 3 notonly-to mens
_ Forcunes and'eſtates, but it reaches. rorheir
- very ſoules and conſciences, by viotented
new coercive Oaths and Proteſtarions, \com-
pos'd by Lay-men, inconſiſtent with the li-
berty of Chriſtians, Never was' there 2
Nation carried away by ſuch a _ pint
Som SS Of vw _M ame. don”
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of deluſion $ never was there 2 poor people
ſo purblinded and Puppified, it I may tay fo,
25 I finde them to be; fo that Tam at aftand
with my ſelte, whether I ſhall pitze them
more, or /asgh at them. They not onely
kiſſe the ſtone that 'bures them, but the
hands of them that hurle-it ; they are come
to that paſſive ſtupidity, that they adore
their very perſecutors, who trom polling fall
now a ſhaving them, and will fay them ar laſt
if they continue this popular reigne, I
cannot compare Enelaxa, as the caſe ftands
with her, more properly, then to a poor
beaſt, ficke of the ſtaggers, who cannot be
curd: without an inciſion. The Aftrono-
mers, I remember, affirme that the Moore
(which predominates over all humid bodies)
hach a more powerfull influence o're your
Britiſh Seas then any other ; ſo that accor-
ding to the obſeryation of fome Newigators,
they ſwell at a ſpring tide in ſome places,
above threeſcore cubirs high : Jam of opi-
rion,thar'thar inconftant humorous Player,
hath alſo an extraordinany dominion ovyer
the braines of the Inhabitants ; for when
they attempt any Innovation (whereunto
all 7»ſulary people are more ſubject then 0-
ther Citizens of the world which are fixed
upon
fancies worke .ſtronglier, and -ſo/ commit!
——— co SIBE YL, An not iS. 7s Ao 2p 2p cat >4
| | (92) hz 141 301 ra
upon the Continent) they fwell higherytheirYor
ſtranger extravagancies then any other't wits:
nefle theſe monſtrous barbarifmes and: vis!
lencies,which have-bin, and-are daily offered! ſhi
£0 Religion and juſt 6:,(the rwo grand ſuppors/
ters of all - States) yea, tohumianEe' Reaſon:
It ſelf ſince the beginning of theſe / trumults;
And now, noble Sir, give -me leave't6:
reader you my;;hamble thanks for that traeiN mc
and. ſolid information you pleaſed to give: {yo
me in London of theſe commotions) 74+ 5:/; the
Daring my-ſhore ſojourne'there, iT hgh [anc
ted on divers odde Pamphlecs 'upon'the: J dil
Seamtreſſes ſtalls, whom I wondred' r6'fee" £0
ſelling Paper ſheets: in lieu'of Hollander jo
the one fide I found the moſt impudent un-
truths. (youchd by publike authority}: the
baſeſt ſcurrilities, and pooreſt jinghes/ of ot
wit that ever Tread in my lite 3'0n thie/otheri [Po
Hide I mer with many pieces that had-good J Tt
ſtuff in them, but gave-mee- nor (beings: | vil
| ſtranger) a full ſatistaRion;: they lookdnd! | 110
further then the: beginning of this*Parliz-* 50!
ment, and the particular :emergentes'there-' fla
of : but you have,. by your methodical rela-* NR
tlon, {o perfectly inſtruſted and teRified my: by
underſtanding, by bringing me to the very
| C2440]
a (93)
iBaxrce of theſe diſtempers, and led me all a-
pflong che fide of the corrent by ſo ſtreight a
Wine, that 1 believe, whoſoever will venture
upon the molt intricate rask of penning the
Itory of theſe vertiginous times, will finde
[himſelf not a little beholden to that Relati-
fon, which indeed may be term'd a ſhort Chro-
-Rnicle rather then a Relation. Wee are come
now under another clime, and here we may
'Emingle words, and vent our conceptions
6: more ſecurely ; it being, as matters ſtand in
e [your Countrey, more ſafe to ſpeake under,
/: the Zily then rhe Roſe; wee may here take in -
z: and pat out freer ayre; I meane, we may
© {diſcourſe with more liberty - for, words are
x" nought els but arre articulated, and coagnlated
x: | 41 74 were into letters and ſyllables.
| ©. Patricims,
e | Sir, I deſerve not theſe high expreflions
{fot your favourable cenſure rouching that
x7 [poor piece z but this Iwill be bold to ſay,
4 | That whoſoever 'doth read it impartially,
4 {will diſcover in the Author the Genizs of an
gi | honeſt Patriot, and a Gentleman, And
$n0w methinks I look on yon unfortunate I-
i land, as if one look upon a Ship roſs'd up
and down in diſtrefle of wind and weather,
by a furious tempeſt, which the more the
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7 g- | tugs
Il
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-(94)
_- tvgsand wraſlles with the foamie waves gi |
the angry Ocean, the more the fury of. tt
Botme encreaſerh, and puts her OW
of (hipwrack z and you muſt needs thiu
' Sir, it would move compathon i in ay he =Þ
to behold a poore Ship in ſuch a deſperate oh
caſe, ſpecially when all his kindred, friend by
_ and fortunes ; yea his &eligion, the moſt Pte;
cious Treaſure of all, are aboard of her, ar al; th
upon Point of finking, Alas I. can contre,
bute nothing now to my poor countrey by the
my prayers. and teares, that it would plealgſ}
God to allay this cempeſt, and caſt over:
board thoſe. that are the true cauſers of-ir;lzq:
and bring the people to the right uſe. off;
Reaſon againe. . It was well obſerved, byflitic
you, Sir, Thar there is a Nationall kinde of hag
indiſpoſition, and obliquiry of mind chat rar tha
geth now -ainongſt- our people, and I feareſſ
1t will be long erethey recurne to their oldJ-''«
Enzliſhtemper. to that rare loyalty and.lowefliis:
whzch they were uſed to (hew to their S#\flhq;
veraigne - fot all che: Principles of Monx; lfe
chie are quite loſt amongſt us, thoſe ancieditBina;
and ſacret flowers of the > Engliſh Diadem ate yer
| trampled under footznay, matters afe.come
| . fo that horrid confuſion, thar not onely they |
| -Prerogetive of the crown, but the founds mic
mental
(95)
o mental Priviledge- of the free-born ſubjec
F'-utterly overthrowne, by thoſe whoſe
el | tedeceſſors- were uſed to be the main fup
6 Fporrers of ir: {o that our King is neceltca-
h ed ro put himſelf in Armes for the 'preſer-
yation not only of his own Regall rights,
4 but of Magna Charta it felt, which was nener
ſoinvaded and violared in any;age, by ſuch
a ciuſlefſe ryrannicall impriſonments, by fuch -
is mexampled deſtructive taxes, by ſtopping
bþ the ordinary proceſſes in Law, and awing al
> Courts of Juſtice, by unheard-of forced
Toiths and Affociations, and a thouſand other
, as, - which neicher Preſident, Bookcaſe or
frarure - can warrant , whereof, if the
byliting- had'idone bar the ewentierh part, he
(Fad deen cryed up to be the Runes Tyranc
4 thas ever was.
li] þ : Peregrine: i ln |
Idg- \Sirz 4 a an "2dliew; and 1o can ſpeak wich
Rflnore freedom of [your Countrey.. The
®Fhorr time char TI d1d eats my bread there,
{lfele che pulſe of the people wich as.much
MYjidgement as I could ; and I find, that this
it Every word: Parliament is become a kind of
s 1a amongſt them, they doe, as it were,
de pin cheir ſalvation upon'r; it is held blaſphe-
lr mic to ſpeake againſt ics The old Engliſh
an Maxime
-aS in the ſacred, profeſſion of . Prieft- hoad wel
- kold, or ar leaſt- wiſe ſhold hold, That after
was to be Conſull, as the Hiftorian tells];
(96)
Maxune was > The King can ag v0 wrong:
another Nominative cafe is .now(ſtept. in, l],
Thas the Parliament can do no.mrong, nor thell :
King reteive «nj: And whereas ther ' was
uſed to be_ bur. one Defender of the Fab,
ther are now ſtarted up amongft you, 1. can-
not.tell how many hundreds of them.. And
the Impoſition ot hands, the Miniſter is .in-
ſpired with the Holy Ghoſt in an extraor-
dinary manner for. the enabling of him to
6 } » 4 _—_—_ w by =
v #
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exerciſe that Divine Function, ſo-the. Emi 1
are grown to. fuch a fond conceit of ther | 7
Parliament Members, that as ſoon as any.is]'44
choſen by the.confus'd cry of the. Commogſy,
people to fit within the walls of that Houle, [.;,
an inerring ſpiric, a ſpiric of iofallibili y pre by
ſencly entereth into him (fo that he is cher-;j
by become like the Pope, a Canon animatme) #
though ſom of them may haply be ſuch flat;
and ſimple animals, that they are as fir tgy!
be Counſellours , as Calzgula's Horle 4
w__— Kit
. Touching Parliament, ther breaths not 2Yiy+
Subje& under Englavds Crown, who hathſyu4
(97)
18ighef efleem bf ir chen 1, ir rhakes "that
ty mixture in'our Governiheht of Monar-
eh *9,0014matie and Drinocraty, betwixt whom,
al | *throdgh ctier'be' a kind of- to- 074inativn of
power duridg the fictirig of Parlzament, "yer
| the two laſt, "which are "compoſed of Peers
ad and People, have no power, bur whatis de-
vel tired from the frft, which may be called tHie
fr} foul char animates ther, ahd-by 'whoſe ad-
&f thoricy rtiey meer, conſult and depart :
-| They come” there to propoſe, nor to #mpoſe
tof Lawes; they come not to make Lawes by
I the fword ; ;' they muſt not be like 7/aco's
at | Tawes, writteti in bloud.” Their Kipg calls
[them thither to be his Cobnſe/lrs,tior Core
00 ÞYyvllets $atid'the Office of Coufiſell is to 4d
« iſe, 1 nor ro inforce ; they come thirher to #x-
te} treat, nor totrear with their Liege Lord 3
ll they* come'to throw their Petitions ar his
4 ow brnd fo they may find a way up: to his
hea
on! *Tis cru, 1 have fead of fiigh thitiss chat
Y tir Pdrlidment have done, bur *rwas eithet
during the” rnonage atid *mitiority of ' out
Kings, wheri they 1 were under proteQorſhip;
or when they were abſetit ina tortain war, ot
t WMinrime of cotiftfion, When ther' were com>
ach "ſ pefitors'of the bt — tor ele wo
aff
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_ and-when the number of both Houſes was
compleat and individed ; but 1 never read
of any Parliament that did arrogate to it (elf
ſuch a power Paramount, ſuch a, Superlative
ſaperintendence, as to check the Prerogative
of their Soverain, to queſtion his xegative
voice, to paſle rhings, not only withour, bur
expreſly againſt his advice and royall com-
mand : I never heard of Parliament, that
wold haye their King, being come to the
Meridian of his age, to tranſmit his intelle-
Rualls, and whole faculty of reaſon to them.
I find ſom Parliaments have bin ſo modeſt
and moderat (Now:moderation is the Rudder
tbat ſhold ſteer the courſe of all great Eouncels)
thar they have declined the agitation and
cognizance of ſom ſtate affaires, humbly
transferrigg them to their Soverain and. his
privy Counſell: a Parl:ament man then, held
it to be the adequat objet of his duty, to
ſtudy the welfare, toredrefle the grievances,
and ſupply the defects of .that particular
place for which he ſerved; The Members
then us dto move in their own (1sferior)
ſphere, and us'd not co be tranſported by a-
ny Eccentric motions, And ſo they. thought
to have complyed with the obligation,
and diſcharged the conſciences of honeſt
Pay
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499)
- Patriots, withour-ſoariog tboye their reach;
"and roving arrindom to treat of uniyerſitls,
-mactlefſe ro bring Religion to: their bar;or
'prieinto the Ar8ane7mperii,the cognizance of
- the one belonging to the King,and bis.intern
-Coutwell of State: che other ro. Diatnes;
who,according tothe Etymolegre of the word,
uſe' robe ſtill cooyertanr in the exerciſe of
ſpeculation of boly and heavenly things: : -
2s 42.051144-9 7 15 OOO; 3
tam clearly of your opinion in thele two
pirriculars'z- for, ſecreo:beinp thee ſoul of pas
fey, matters of State ſhold -be:communica-
red 'bur- to: few z and, touctung ; Religion, [
cannot ſee how it may quagr4t with the cal-
ling, and be homwogenrows to,the protefiion of
Lay=men, to: determine rtiatters of Divi-
nity; who, ouriof their incapadity and wun-
aptnefle coche work, being not: pares; aegvr
to; and being: carryed away:by.a- wild kind
of Conſcience without Science, like: Shig
withont a Helm,\ftaHgpoa dangerous quiek-
ſands {o thar whileſt they labour content
her;ithey mar r.her; whilſt theyithink tO ſet-
tle'her; they confound her, whilſt they (plot
to prevent che growthiof Popery, they pay
the way tobring it 1, by conniving at, dn
countenancing thoſe monſtrous Schilmes
| Hz whict-
| { aþrod) - +0
which-T obferved: to have'icrept- into" your
Church ſince thes reizn of this Parliament -
ſo that one'may juſtly ſay, Theſe'your Re-
formers are'bur-che © execucioners of the old
proje@of the Jeſuirs; the main part wher-
ofwas; and is ſtill; ro hurle-the ball of-dif-
cord;'and harch *new-opinions ſill *rwixc he
Proteſtants, to' make tactions''and ſcifſures
between them, and ſo reader their religion
more deſpicable and ridiculous,
. "Bute metckiinks,' matters are come-to/ 2
ſtrange paſs with you in England, that the
Fudzes cannot be truſted with the Law,.nor
the Prelats with ithe: Goſp ey whereas from
511 times, out of their long experience and
years; theſexwodeprees of men: were uſed
ro be reverenced:for: the chief Towch-men,
and unqueſtionable Zxpaſitors . of both,
which another power ſcems now to arro-
gate toiitſelt, asthe.inerring Aracle of both
bur'I pray God that theſe grand Refiners of
Religion, prove not 2uack-ſalvers ar: laſts
that theſe upſtart Polititians prove notdm-
poſtors : for -1} have heard of ſome. things
they bave done; that if Machiavelt himſelf
were alive, he-wold be: reputed a Saint in
compariſon:of:them. The Rowan ten, and
Atheman thitty, were Babies to theſe ; yy
R :
-
p
(101)
the Spaniſh: Inquiſition,: and: the BloetnRade
(that: Conncell of: bloud) which the* Duke
of Abue erected in Flanders, when he- ſwore,
That-he wotd drown the Hollanders: in theis,
Butter-tubs, was:nothing to- this; when'.-L.
confider'the prodigious:power they; havea(-
ſumed rothemſelves, and:do:daily/ exerciſe
over. the bodies, the eſtates and ſouls. of -
men. 11; 90846; 83 |
In your former Diſcourſe, you told me,
that. amongſt multicudes of other miſchiefs,
wh ct:chis new-Fation hatch wroughe, they
have put'diviſzos.'twixt:all forts and ſexes,
*twixt all condicious, both-of - men; and; wo-
men ; 'onething more.I may ſay, they have.
done.in this kind ;.tor, they. have laboured
to put diviſios:between. the Perſons of the
boly Trinity, by making the- firſt Perſow,to
be offended at that voluntary ; genuflec#077
and reverence which hath bin from all times.
praiſed in the Chriſtian-Church to: the .
name of the ſecond Perſox ;;:fo that .Fe-
f#-worſhip, as I have read: in fone of your
profane Pamphlets, is grown now to be a -
word of reproach amongſt you.
But to the point ; ther is one thing I can
never ceaſe to wonder at : that whereas at
the beginning of this Parliameyt, ther were
H 3 as
ms GSee>o<W55: ur"
I NG Ee ws
, ———
=_
=_ > HHS. = <0; _ —
(203)
as able and experienced, as for: and: well
ſpoken Gentlemen, as any in; che Whole:
Kirigdort,: tharface im the Hoofe, and.nvade;..
the far major = -I wonder bſay; that they:
TO piddy- headed: FaQtion 10:
411 before” them in har: violent -mian-,.
ret that they did nor cruſhyrhis'« Coratrice 1067
the thell. 1312: Gas Fail Went eh WARRATIES. © 3k:
w_ fiiffer” t
= EDg
-*Firft, Sit,” you: know ther: is anking fe;
agt&ehble rothe” nature of man; as. zovelty.z:
and#i the conduct of humane: affaires; ir is
always ſeen, that when any.new deſign on:
faQion is a! foor}: the Projectors are ; com
monly tnore pragmaticaltand feaulons apon:
thework-; they lie centinel| ro:warch ail:ad+;-
vaneages, "the Sand ofrheir/brains.is always:
rannitfs ' This hath canſed'rhis apſtare-Pasir
tion; rotick fill clols rogerher, and icon»:
tintie ' maryelloufly conſtanr'to:theirendsy;
they haye biw ſed toiryre'and/ onr-faſtr ro:
weary td cout-warech the- moderate and:
well-mirded Gentlemen'y i{4mertimessTt)bo;
after-midnighr, 'by clancular and nocturnal} ©
ficrings 3 ſo chat as His Majeſty fates in one
of his Declarations, moſt" of? rheir :Yiotes'i!
miy be ſaid to be houg he elſe, "dur Ferdittoi
of + flarvdTwy.” EET ETC ENT Sf;
Ano-
(103)
Another reaſan is, That they countenan-
ced the flocking together of the: promiſcu-
ous rabble from ' Londox, notwithſtanding
the two feverall motions'the Lords-made
unto them, that they mighe. be ſapprefled
by Parl1amentary Order; This riotous crue
awed the wented freedom of fpeech-in- both
Houſes, cryed up the names, and confront-
ed many of their Members: yet theſe new
Polititians- nor only-conniy'd at thern, bur
call'd them their friends 5 and ſo rhey night
well enough; orrather their Champions; tor:
they had ordered the matter ſo, that they
were {ure to-have them ready at their de-
votion, at the heaving of a finger and from
this cainultuons worgrel! cue, they derived
their firſt encouragements ro do ſuch high
prodigious-inſolencies they have commit-
ted finces Adde' hereunto; that they. com-
plyed exceedingly beſides with the Com-
mon Councell of che City, they uſed to at-
tend themr'early and late ro knock heads
| together's andit any new thing was to paſſe
J inthe Houſe, they wold firſt wair on- them,
' fo know their pleaſure,: and afterwards ir
ſhold be propounded and put to Yore in the
Houſe: And how derogatory it is to the -
high Law- making-conncell, to make their
. H 4 chiet-
(164)
chiefeſt Members 'wair-fromtime; toitinie
on the Magiſtrates of +42 Gity;who-in forwes
times were. uſed to. attend-them-upon-all
occafipns in: Weſtawinſter, I 4mmialbamedi eq
thigk 0n.3 nor am: lefſe aſhuned:to rememy
ber choſe bale Artifices and: indire; courſes
that were praRtis'd. at the: eleRtion af «this .
pretended -Major-z here they -rack'd:
tro a.ſecond choice; after the firſt was legal
ily made, and how-the Common» Conncell avas
pack d up of the ,arrandeſt $ohiſmaricks: up
wealth-{woln Ciry,. and the;(aid-upbridlet
pack -of Oppidans (ſeconded ;afterwards: by
the Countrey clownes) /who, offered: iſuch
Qutrages t0 Goas Houſe, the Kivgs hauſes:ahd
the. Parliament heuſe, may. be- aſcribed::dl
miſeries, and . the miſcarriage>-af--chings:
tor they cauſed: His Majeſty:t9- forſake:;bis
own ſtanding palace, to abſent himſelf fri
mis Parliament, .and make--chat,; u0p leaking
-ogreſle, yup. and-down. his: Kingdonr ever
Gee, which Purall Counlells apa ſtands and
r0-be ipyoly'd ip a contufiogs, +. :- (Ji
yr Per earths. \3 37
«PP
- Byclet me tell you char your Britannich
$44,thaugh he be now ore-ſet-with cheſc
palucky clouds, engendred of the rapopr
$ *
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42. =; Oy i oO vo
=, 4 CD =
| — | <> w_ þ Gy IA ww A V9 WY. yy "We 95s. Fn, TT LY nd
(105)
of:diſtempered brains, and the -r0r7en hearts
of many of his -own .meniall ſeryants;' who
have proved likethe Sons of Serviah ume
him; ingratefyll monſters; yet! is he ill in |
his own: 06nd: will, when this fool weas
ther's paſſed;and the aire :cleareda litfleiby
thinder, ſhine more glorioufly and power-
fully: cher before, ir being 7a” maxime of
Stare, Thar ': Rebellion ſuppreſſed, makes 4
Prince the ſtrongers Now: Rebellion durſt never
yetlook-ai'Prince-long in rhe face, forthe
Majeſty: of * Gods: anointed, ufeth: to' darr
ſ{achfalgentpiercing beams,'that dazle' the
eyesof difloyalty, and ſtrikes ber ſtark blind
ar-laſt..-And:truly, as you-ſay; ] am alſo
dlearty-of :opinion, that theſe ingratefull
TZonaoxers-, as they were the comencers ,
{6;thave'they *been the © continuers'and
-rdntrivers of this ugly Rebellion ever fince $
"They ſeem 0: have utterly forgotren'who
*hath given them"the ſword, and by, and
'fromwhom they hold their Charters Their .
Corporations are now grown body politicks,
&lo as many petty Repablikes amongſt them,
{o that they begin to ſmellrank of a Harnſ-
*town,\Poor fimple Animals, how they ſuf-
fer their pockers to be pick'd, their purſes
-tobe-cut; how they part with their vital
"firits every weeks how deſperately they
poſt
(106)
poſt 0n to;peverty, and their own »uine, ſaf-
tering themſelves in lieu of Scarlet-gowner, 'Wayi
to be governed by a rade company of Red- Pive
coats, who 'twixt plundering, aſſeſſements, and:
wiſts, will quickly: make-an end of them.' 1
fear ther is ſom formidable jadgmenc of: re-.
oall revenge hangs over that:Ciry z for the.
anger ofa King islike the roaring of a-Ly- |
on; and never read yetof any Ciry that
conteſted with her Soverain, but ſhe ſmart-
ed ſoundly forit: at laſt; The: preſent caſe
of London bears a great deal: of ' proportion .
with that of Monpellzer here inFrance,inCharls
the (eventh's time 5 for:when that cown had
refuſed the publiſhing of miany of. the. Kings þ&
Edifts and Declarations, murthered fom:of
his. Miniſters: ; and-- Servants, abuſed - rtie |
Church, and committed-other high adtsof Þ
infolency.;. the. Dake- of; Berizy was fſentto::
reduce the Town' to obedience; the: Dake pri
prefied them wich ſo hard a fiege, that at I -
laſt the beſt Cirizens came forth in'proceſ- IF. :
ſton, . bare- headed;8& bare>footed,with white?
wands in their hands, and halters about their ''Þ
necks to deliver the keys of all the gates ro-'Lor
the Duke, but this-wold not ſerve:the turn,”
for two hundred of them were condemned" iv
fo the gallies, two hundred of them: were
; | | hang'd,
'(107)
;8'd, and rwohundred beheaded, the-King
|; yjing, he offored. thoſe as: vi#inics for. the
ives: of his. ſervants whom they hacmur-
{ Shered with the falfe ſword of Tultice, I.
Bur, i Sir, I: much marvell- how your
hurch- government, which-from: all times
. hath been cryed upto befo exact, is ſoſnd-:
Benly tuiabled [into this confufion 2 how:
Jour ory 56s are fallen under fo- darke a
cloud, conlidering that divers of then-were
enowned- through all che Reform'd Char-.
hes in Chriſtendgme. for their rare learning- |
End pietief Arthe SyncZat; Dort, you know
- (ome of /thent aſhſted, : and. no exception:
"tall: taken ae their degree: and: dignicy,bur:
Rook precedence accordingly, how came: it
ko pafle,1hatthey are. now fallen under; this:
| FEclypfe; as 50 be fo perſecuted, to be:puſh'd
Jour of: the Houteof Peers, and hurried into
Fpifon? Ipray you be. pleaſed to _ mee. -':;
! Parriciun....
$i; I remember tochave. read i in the Iriſh
-:Þtory; That when the Earl of K2/4are in Hen-.
1 the eighth's time, was/broughr before the
ord Deputytor burning Caſiiles. Church, he.
anſwered, Afy Lord, 1 would never have burnt
Pricterc} ,} unleſſe 1 had thought the Biſhip had
$rcn-i94t ; tor/ewas not the Church, but the
ok : Biſhop
. (108)
Biſhop I aim'd at. One may fay fo of thefſ
Anglican Church at this preſent, that theſeÞpoo
fiery Zelots, theſe vaporing Scioliſts of theſſot t
times are ſo furiouſly enraged againſt chis
holy Primative order ; ſome our-of Envir,
fome out of Malice, ſome out of 7gnorance,ſf
that one may ſay, our Church had not beenſ
thus ſer on fire, unleſſe the Biſhops had been
in't. Igrant there was never yet any Pro-fhig
feffion made up of men, but there were ſomeſpol
bad z we are not Angels upon-earth chereſjnev
was 2 T«axs among the firſt dozen of Chri-Ymo
ffians, though Apoſtles, and they by our's:-fſbro
710475 owne election: Amongſt our Prelareswe!
peradventure (for. I know of no accuſationÞſay:
fram'd againſt them yer) ſome -might beJout
faulty, and wanting moderation, being notAn
contented to walk upon the bartlements of be
the Church, bur chey muſt puc-themſelves} :
upon ſtilts 5 but if a golden chaine hath hap-J
pily a copper link two or three, will you par
therefore breake and throw away the whole] yol
chaine. If a few Shoomekers (I confeſle the | pal
compariſon is too homely, but 1 had it of 2 | anc
Scots man)ſell Calfes skin for Neats leather, |
muſt theGentle-Craft be utterly extinguiſhd, |
muſt we go bare foot therefore ? Ler the || we
perſons ſuffer in the Name of God, and not Þ the
rhe holy Order of Zpiſcopsry & But
— (109)
ef But good Lord, how pictifully werz thoſe
«oor Prelats handled? what a Tartarian kind
f
i
tof tyranny it was, to drag twice:into priſon
$ welve grave reverend Biſhops, cauſa ad-
vc inaudita,.and afterwards not to be able to
Frame as much as an accuſation of mrſdemea-
nfo againſt them, much lefſe of Treaſon,
n (whereof they were firſt impeach'd with: fuch
(high clamors : But I conceive it was of pur-
eflpoſe, to ſer them out of the way, thar the
efloew Faion might paſſe things better a-
{mongſt the Peers, And it ſeemes they
brought their work abont's for whileſt they
were thus reclyſed and abſent, they may be
nfIſayed to be thruſt out of Goores, and ejefFed
x out of their owne proper ancient inheritance,
x And the Tower wherein they were caſt might
of ff be called Zimbo patrum all the while.
Sc; Peregrin. | |
-j| But would not all this, with thoſe un-
1 | parallell'd Be#s-of Grace you mentioned in
| your: firſt Diſcourſe, which had formerly
6 || paſſed, ſuffice to beger a good underſtanding,
2 || and make them coxfide in their King 2
rfl ©... "Patricits, __ |
d, | No, but the paſſing of theſe Bills of grave,
1 | were cerm'd-4&s of Daty 1n his Majeſty 5
t | they went ſofar in their demands that 'twas
Il | nor
F 9 "
— penn p— -
—— —— ee —_
VIDE IT Enron
— ——mnieheeny ins .
4 noni GARE GS VEN IEEETS EET EE nn 2—_
fr 476)
not ſufficient for him to give up bis Towe}Q) ut
Flett- Royall, bis Magazimes, his' Ports; Cafti B
and Srwants,but be muſt delivet up hisfwa} m
inro their hands,all che Souldiery & Mlitingl (a
forces of the Land ; nay, he muſt give:uphig
very Haderſtanding unto chem ; the muſtre-
figne his own Reaſon, and with an 2plibit
Faith or blind obedience, he muſt believe al
they did was to make tirn glorious ; and it at a-
ny time he admoniſhed 'them; or preſcribed
wayes for them to proceed and: .expedit
- matters, or if he adviſed. them in any chins,]
they took it in a kind" of indignarion,/and{f tÞ
was preſently cryedup tobe Breach of P14- th
OO 00002 2 POegrene-+- -
' Breach of Priviledgetorſooth, There is n6 |þ 'Þ
way in my conceit, to make a-King mote | £0
inglorious, both arhome and abroad, then | C
to diſarme him; and'to take' from him the || {ec
command and | difpoſing of the - acz1itis | ie!
throughout his Kingdome, is direMly to dif || 4a
arm him;8& wreſt the Sword out of his hand || an:
and how then canhe be rermed 4 Defen-
der ? how can he defend. either himſelf, of || fin
others tis the onely way to expoſe him to
ſcorn and derifion ; truly, as Ticondceive, that
demand of che Alitia was a thing not only
.
Czxx)
vl unfit for the to ak, but for him to gravt.
of But, Sir, what ſhold be the reſon which
#& mov'd them to-make that inſolent propo-
ml falls.
RT Patricits,
I They cry'd out that the Kingdom was
vill upon point of being ruind 5 that it was
inthe very jawes of-deſtrution z that there
were forreign and in-land plots againſt it - all
which are prov'd long fince to be nothing
elſe but meere Chymera's ; yet people for the
moſt part continue ſtill ſo groſlely beſotred, |
il that they cannot perceive to this day, that
4. || theſe forg'd feares,theſe Utopian plots, thoſe
: | publick 1dee's were fram'd of purpoſe, that
they mighr'takeall che martiall power into
5 || their hands $, that ſo they - might withour
@ | concroulment caſt the government of
1 | Church and ſtate into what mold they plea-
[
4
5
[;
ſed,and ingrofle the chieteſt offices ro them«
ſelves : And from theſe imaginary inviſible
dangers proceeded theſe viſible calamities,
£ || and grinding palpable preflures which
- | hath accompanied this odious Watre ever
x | fince. Atl, : +
l 11, 1.145: Peregrine 111: 15
n Herein methbinks, your ffatiffs have
# | fiewne themſelves politique enough, bur
r, not
tis) |
not-ſaprudent&honeſtsfor Znidente & Policy;
chough chey ofcen agree1t the end, yet they
diffet-in eleQion of the yeanes. to comp fle
their ends: The.one ſerves. himſelf of truth;
rength of Reaſon, integriry, .and- gallant-
neſle in their proceedings g the other of fich-
ons, . fraudulence, lies, and other -finiſter
' meanesz the work of the. one is. laſtins: 2nd
permanenc, the others | worke mouldezs
2away,-and ends in infamy art laſt ; for fraud
and froſt. alwaies end fowle,. But. how did
they-r&uice that. moſt rare and high. unex-
ampled cruſt his Majeſty repoſed in them;
whea he before paſſed that fatall AR of cor-
rinzance, .a greater truſt then ever Znghſb
| King pucin Parliament * How did they per-
| forme their ſolemn promiſe and deepe Pro-
_ reſtations, to make him the moſt gloy1eu;
(at home and .abroad) the richeſt and bef|
. belovedſt King that ever \raigned in that
POCO TIELOCSS / [71 TION yo |
_ . Herein I muſt confeſle, they bield very ill
correſpondence wich him, for the more he
. truſted them, che more diffident they. grew
_ of him, and truly, Sir, herein. white differs
not ſo much from black, as their aRians have
been diſconſonant tatheis words: Tagen
| f
ROS” En Fa Ap (13 J) For : :
| rh firſt ptotiſe; to make him- g/o#font ; if
© fufferatiefphbouring Nation (the Seory'ro'
8 *Femand and UBcain 'whar they pleaſed "of
9 | i fin; ifro bit capitalations of peacewith
& | "7 prear forrein Prince (the French Kingy:by
& | the rebvoy of the Capuchins, and: divers 0-
& | "ther As; if to brivg rhe dregs-and-riff-
df Fife of the City to domineere before: his
7* | , Coburt-gate, notwithſtanding bis Proclama-.
"| tions of Teprefling them; if to confront
df him and ſeek bis life by* fire and vat: in-o-
"| pen field, by open defiance, and” putting
"| him upon' 2 defenſive war; if 'to vote his
= | - Queen a Trajtreſſe, roſhoorat-tier;Jto'way-
ib lay her,to deſttoy her, if co hinder the- rea-
I ding of his Proclamations, and the fleight-
"ing of his Declarations (encloſed in Letters
fign'd and ſeal'd with his owit hand) for fear
dl | they (hold bring the people to their wits a-
'S3in 5 if to call chem fetrers of gold, djvelliſh
ewviſes, fraueht with dodtrines of diviſion;
" reall miſtakes, abſurd ſuppoſitions, though
|. ther never dropr from Pri#ces gen, more
tal); more rafionall and ſtrong finewy exs
, Prefſions ; if ro ſuffer every ſhallow-brain'd
« Scoliſt to preach, every Pamphletter to print,
: every rotten- hearted man or woman to
o_ Pate what they pleaſe of him and his Queenz
I if
_. 114) |
if ro ſleight his often acknowledgment,can-
difſentions, retraRions, pronunciations of
Peace, and proffers of Pardon ; if to endea-
vour to. bring him to a kind of ſervile ſyb- |
miſſion 4 it to bar him of the attendance. of
his Domeſtigues, to abuſe and impriſon. his
meſſengers, to hang his ſervancs for obeying
his Commiſhon z if to prefer the ſafety and.
repnte af five ordinary men, before the ho-.
nour; of their King, and being. aftyally cx-
peach'd.of Treaſon, to bring them in a kind
of tri4umph.to kis Houſe ; it for {ubjeRs. t9
Article, Treat and Capitslate with bim 4 if
co tamper with his Conſcience, .and- make
him forget che ſolemn ſacramentall oath he:
took ar his Coronation, if ro develt | him of,
2ll regall rights, to. take from him the ele--
Rion of his. ſervants and officers, and bring.
him- back to a kind of minority.z if chis- be;
tQ make a King glorious, our King is made:
gloxious enough,
| Touching ithe ſecond promiſe. to. make:
him the. richeſt King that ever Was if; to
denude him of his aative rights, to- declare.
that he-hach no property in any thing but by::
way of truſt, not ſo.much property-as an E--
l:#ive-King z if totake away his.cuftoras of.
inherizance ; if to take from bim his Exr-
C/ -,
FEUSS )
iequer and Mint; if ro'thruſt him otit of
his 'own Towns, to fuffer a lowſie Citizen
to lie.in his beds within his Royall Caſtle
of Windſor, wheii he himſelf would have
come thither to lodg ; if ro enforce him co
a defeyfrve war, and cauſe him to ehgage his
Fewells atid Plate, and fo plunge him in a
bottomlefle: gulph of debt for his neceſlary
cefence ; ifto anticipate his revenue royall;
and reduce him'to ſuch exigents thar he arti
ſcarce*the ſubſiſtence of ah ordinary Gentle-
man; if this be to make a 7ich King; then is
our King made ſufficiently rich,
Concertiing their third promiſe, to make
bitm-the bef belovedF King that ever was ; if
to caſt all the aſperfions char poſlibly could
be deviſed apon hisGovernment by publique
claborat remonftrances ; if ro ſuffer and give
Texts to the ſtrongeft lung'd Palpireers ro
poy fon the hearts of his ſabjecs, ro intoxt-
cat their brains wicki fumes ot forg'd jealou-:
lies, ro poſlefle them with att opinion, chat he
1S1 Papiſt itt his tiearc,and confequenely hath
a deſign to introdace Popety ; it ro fleighe
his words, his proiniles; his Affſeverations,
Oaths and Proteffations; whien tte calls teaven
and*earth to 'wittteſſs; when he defires no
bleffing orhetwiſe-ro _ upon himfelf; his
Wife
I | T0
deep-tercht expreſſions, thit wold aye
made the meaneft of choſe millions of Chri-
ftians which are his vaſſals, to be believed; h
if eo protet Delinquents, ,and 'proclaim'd
Traytors againſt him if ro ſ#ſc:tate, authoriſe,
and encourage all ſorts of ſubjefts ro heave up
their hands againſt him, and levy armes to
emancepate themſelyes from that natyrall
allegiance, loyalty, and ſubjeRion, whetein,
they and their fore: fathers were ever tyedto
"his Royall Progenicors; if ro make-chem
ſwear and damn themſelves into a tebelli-
on ; if this be to. make a King b:loved, then
this Parliament hath made King Charles the
beſt beloved King that eyer was in Eng-
land, LIK g
= Peregrin,” TY
I cannot compare-this Rebellion in Ez
land, more properly then to that ' in this
Kingdom, in King Fohn's time, which in our
French Chronicle b:ares to this day the infa-
mous name of Faquerie de Beanwoiſen; ; The
Peaſans then out of a ſurteir of plenty, had
grown up to'that height of inſolency, thar
they confronted the Nobleſſe and Gentry, they
gathered in multitudes, and puc' themſelves
18 armes to ſuppreſfle, or rather excinguifh
"2 : them ;
"P's rate, gmy ah >,
ww OO —* DA.
=>:
CHE
ED .
k
(117)
them ; and this popular tumule never ceaſed,
till Charles le Sage debell'dit; and it made
the Kings of France more 'puiſſant ever
ſince, for it much. increaſed their Finances,
in regard that ' thoſe extraordinary raxes
which che people impoſed upon themſelves
for the ſupport of the war, hath continued e-
yer fince a firm revenue to the Crown ;
which makes me think of a facecious ſpeech
of the late Henry the Great, to them of or-
kans - for wherasa new impoſition was laid
gpon'the Townſmen during the league by
Monſicur de Ia Chaſtre, who was a great
ſickler in thoſe wars they petitioned Hen-
15.che fourth, thar he wold be pleaſed to rake
off that raxe, the King asked them, Who
had laid thar taxe upon them * the ey ſaid
Monſeenr de la Chaſtre, during the time of the
League, the King replyed, Pus que Monſieur
de Ia Chatre vous a ligne qu'il vous deſtigue,
fince Monſieur de 1a Chaſtre hath leagu'd you,
let Monſbeur de 1a Chaſtre unteague you, and
| bo the ſaid caxe continueth to this day. -
I have obſerved in your Chronicles that
ic hath bin che fate of your Engliſh Kings to
be baffled often by petty companions; as
Jack Straw, Wat Tyler, Cade, warbecke and
Mack. A waſpe may ſomrimes do a ſhrewd
I3 > mm
(118)
xurn tothe Eazle, as you ſaid before; - yaur
1ſland| hath bin fruitfull for Rebellions, tay: |
think ther hapned near upon a bandris
ſince the laſt Conqueſt, the Ciry of Zon-
don, as 1 remember, 1 in your Story hath! re-
belled ſeven times at leaſt, and forfeited her
Charter 1 know not how often, /but ſhe bled
ſoundly for it at laſt, and commonly, the
berrer your Princes were, the worſe your
people have been ; As the caſe ſtands, I ſee
no way for the King to eſtabliſh a ſerled
peace, but by making a fifch Conqueſt of
you and for Lendon, ther muſt be a way
tound to prick that tympany of pride wher-
with ſhe ſwells fo much.
' Patriciggs,
*Tis true, ther has bin from time to time
many odd InſurreQions in Engiand, but our
King oathered a greater ſtrengch out of them
| Afterwards, the 7nconflant people are alwayes
acceſſary to their own miſeries : Kings Pre-
rogatiyes are like the O Ocean, which as the
Civilians rell us, if he loſe in one place, he
gers ground in another. Cares and Croſſes
ride behind Kings, Clowds hang oyer them.
They may be <clypſed a while, but they
will ſhine afrerwards with a ſtronger luſtre.
Pur gracious Soyerain hach paſſed a kind of
Qr-
| (229)
ordeal, afiety triall 5 he while now hath bin
matriculatedand ſerv'd part of an Apprenti-
ſhip inthe School of Aflidtion 3, lhope God
will pleaſe ſhortly to cancell che Indencure,
and reſtore him to a ſweeter liberty then e-
ver. This Diſcourſe was ſtopp'd in the Preſs
by the tyranny of the Times, and not ſuf-
fer'd to ſee open light till now.
i: ;
SOBERand SEASONABLE
MEMORANDUM
SENT TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE
PHILIP late Earl of Pem-
brock , and Montgomery, SC
To mind Him of the particular Sacred
Ties (befides the Common. Oath of
Alleageance and Supremacy )wereby he was
bound to adhere to the King his. Liege
| Lord and Maſter,
Preſented unto Him in the hotteſt brune -.
of the late Civill Wats. |
Juramentium ligamen Conſcientia maximum.
: LONDON,
\ Printed in the Year, 1661.
To the Right Honourable,
PaiLie Earl of Pembrock, and nd
Montgomery , Knight of - the
Batch; ; Knight, of che moſt noble
Order of the Garter 4 Gentle-
man of Bis Majeſties Bed:
chamber, Arid oneof His moſt!
— _—_ Counſel pF |
(123)
OP a T—_
[HSE SER SOIHRED
My Lord, EY 3
His Letter requires no Apology,
WA much leſſe any pardon, bur may
@ <xpect rather a good reception
S and thanks, when your Lord-
|| teric trears of by weighing irin your ſecond
and third thoughts which uſually carry with
them: a" greater advantage of wiſdom : Ir
| concerns not your body, or temporall eſtate,
| butchiogs refleRing upon the nobleſt pare
of you, your ſou, which being'a beam of
Immortality; and a Type of the Almighty;
; | 5 incomparably more precious, and rende-
; | reth all other earthly things to be but bables
; | and- tranſitory trifles; Now, the ſtrongeſt -
tye, the ſolemneſt engagement. and ſtipula-
; | tion that can be betwixt the ſoul and her
) | Creator, is an Oath, I do not underſtand
; | common tumultuary raſh oaths, proceeding
ſud-
74%, 5.\
»4
vY
© ſhip hath ſeriouſly peruſed the -
contents, and ruminated well upon the mat-.
from agill habir, or hear of paſſion upon |
< — {_C__qnqi_
———
_ — > ——— —
—— ——%——
wed
Vet — ” D————_
Se % ant ; Toa age.0 q 7 oC iS 406 YO SH '
life (elſe they are invalid and unwarrantable
as they are religious acts in their own nature;
(124)
' . s
from whom-they receive both legalicie 2
\
ſos the taking and obſeryance- of rhe
part of Gods honor, and there can be;ng:
thing more derogatory to the high Majeſty
and holineſle of his name, nothing more dan*
gerous , deſtruQtive and damnable to hi:
mane ſouls then the infringmenc and el The he
of them, or omiſſion in the' performance: 0:
| them- Which makes the Twrks, of whom
Chriſtians in this particular may learn a rege
der peece of humanity, to be ſo caucious,
that they ſeldom or never adminiſter ar
oath to Greek, Jew, or any other Nation,
and the reaſon 1s, that. if the” Party ſyorn
doth: take that Oath upon: Hopes of. {ome
adyantage, or for. evading 'of danger. and
danger;
TR. .
uniſh-
a
4 (x25) |
puniſhment, and afterwards reſcinds ir, they
think themſelyes tq be involved inthe Per-
jury,. and ſo. acceflary to his damnation :
Our Civill Law hath a Canon conſonant to
A 5
this; which is, M0rtale peccatum eft ei preftare
{wamentum, quem [cio veriſumiliter violats-
mm; Tis a mortal fn to adminiſter an Oath
to him who I probably know will breakit z, To
this may allude another wholeſome ſaying,
A falſe 0ath is damnable,g trutOath dangerous,
none at all the ſafeſt, How much then have
they to anſwer for, who. of late yeares have
fam'd ſuch formidable coercive generall
Oaths to ſerve them for engins of State: to
lay battery ro the Conſciences and Soules of
poor men,-and. thoſe without the- affent of
theirSoveraign, and oppoſit point blank to
former Oaths they,themſelves bad taken:
theſe kigd of Oarhs theCity of London hath
ſwallowed .lately:in groſſe, and the Country
in detaile, which makes 'me confidently be-
leeve. that. if ever that [ſaying of- the holy
Propher, The Land monrnes for Oaths,was ap-
pliable to any part of the habitable earth, ic
may be now.applied to this reprobare lland,
_ Bur now I apme to'the maine of my pur-
poſe,and to thoſe.Oaths your Lordſhip bath
rikeh before this diſtracted time, which che
(126)
world © knowes , and your <colllcieie YC
can teſtifie, ' were divers They' were [| C
all of chem ſolemn,and ſome of them*$4: | ?e
.cramentall Oaths' (and indeed, evety 's- || -:
len Oath among the Antients was hild #S4- |"
crement :) They all implyed,. and impofet te:
an indiſpenſible fidelicy, Truch andloyalty: Jex
from you to: your. Soveraign Prince; your-['9
Liege Lord and Maſter che King: 1 with ff 4":
make fome inſtances :' Your Lordthip took|J the
_ an Oath when Kaight of: che-Bath roloveſ 8!
Jour Soueraign above all” earthly ' Creaturts; her
and for His Right and wy Tt lit” ad ty
ae gs + vl
_ By the Oath. of Supremacy you: Cigar
u 2 aith and trie allegeante to the Kin þ ly
Highneſſe, and to your Power roefend all |
risdiffions, Priviledges,” Prebeminences - up
; Authorities belonging to his Highneſſe'&ee "i Fre
Yaur Lordſhip took an-Oach -when Pri-qJottt
vie Counſellor, 1a be a true and: faithfoll So?
aut any o Hine, and if 'n0u-knew or indeifties'| ugl
of any manner of thing to be attempted, - dont; Pap:
or ſpoken ageinfl His Majeſtics Perſor;0#e- | H
—_ Creww, or Dignity, you fovreretet, ja dt
withſtand the ſame tathe uti #1 ons
Lag wa cauſe it30 be tevealed rw\limw(e ” WJE.D
7] ober 4 of His Privy Connſet; "The Ouths iv
© your
- (127)
youtadk when Bedchamber man, and L.
| Chamberlain bind you as firialy ro His
LN Parfomers ds 3 200d nd untaghnle,
.. Your Lordſbip may alſocall to memorie
when you were inſtalled Knight -of the Gar-
ter; (whereof. you are now the oldeſt living
except.K,of Denmark) you ſolemaly - ſwore
ta defend $be Honour aud Quarrals, the Rights
and; Lordſhip: of -- your i Soveraizgne © Now.
the-Record-.: tells us -that che chiefeſt
ground. of :inſticuring the ſaid order by that
heroick- . Prince- Edward the Third © was ,
{inthe might have choice gallant men, who
-Fby Oath and Honour ſhould adhere unto
Abim.in all dangers, and difficulties, and char
by:way of reciprocation Hee ſhould prote&
2d. defend them, Which made Afonſo
{Duke of Calebrie fo much imporctune Henry:
iYthe Eighr fo inſtall bim- one of the: Knighes
2Jotthe Garter, chat be might engage King
_RH415\.to: protect him againſt Charles the -
Pl i threarned then the conqueſt of
Wo C7 OS V3 | |
oy How:your Lordſhip hathacquitted your
}Ydlt of the performance of theſe Oatbs,your
4 $onicience:(that.boſome record) can make
Je beſt affidavit; Some of chem oblige yau
of 994vc 2nd dye with: King Charles, but what:
1.1 ES Tn. Oaths
<FEZzzE- -. = —W— "TT . A Ty
eG ng _— _ _—_ _ _
—
EG IA
HE SEES
EE Ie rn
- — — _—_ =
a — —— =
-groſſeſt Buls that can.'be, yer theſe fore-
(128)
'Oiths or any thing like an Oath binds you
colive and diewith the Houſe of Commons, as
your Lordſhip often gives out you will, 1
am yet tolearne : Unlefle that Houſe which
hath not power as much as to. adminiſter. an
Oath(much lefle to make one) can abjalve
you-trom your. former Oaths, or haply by
cheir omnipotence djſpexce wich you for the
obſervance of them.Touching the. Polzticall
- - capacitie of the King,/1 teare that will be a
weak plea for your Lordſhip before the Txi-
bunall of heaven, and they who,whiſper ſyct
Chimeras into your ears, abuſe you in grofle;
- buc pur caſe there 'were ſuch a thing as
political capacitie diſtin& from the perſona,
which toa true rationall man is one of the
mentioned Oaths relate-moſt of them.meet-
ly uaco the: Kings 2erſop , the individually
Perſon of King Charles, as you ate His
Domeſtick-Counſellor, and cubicular Ser
My Lord, I take leave to tell your, Lord:
ſhip (and che Spe&ator ſees ſometimes]
morethen the Gameſter)thart the world ex-
ereamely marvels at yow more then others,
- and-it makes. thoſe who wiſh vou beſt. co.be-,;
rransformed to wonder, that _—_ fi
| ſ(houldgs!;
+.
4 : :
« of
«
( 129 )
thold be the firſt of y your Race who deſec2
red the Crown, which one of your Progenis
tors ſaid; he' "would fill follow though ir
were chrown upon an heds: Had yout
Princely Brother (William Earl of Pembrock)
"bin living he wold have bin ſooner -torn by
wild hotles than have banded againſt ir, ot
abandoned the King his Maſter, and fallen
ro ſuch grofle tolatry as to worſhip 'the
"Beaſt with many heads. The world alſo ſtands
aſtoniſhed that you ſhold confederate to
bring into the bowels of the L3nd, and
make Elogiums in ſome of your Speeches
of that hungry people which have bin from
altcimes ſo'crofle and farall ro the Engliſh
' Nation; and particularly ro-your own ho-
hour - Many thoaſands do wonder that your
Lordſhip ſhold be brought to'perſecute with
fo much animoſity atid Harred chat reyeretid
| Orderin Gods Chutch. (Epiſcopacy) which
is contemporary with Chriſtianity ic ſelf,
and wherunto you had orice deſigned, atid
deyoted one of your deareſt Sons ſo {d-'
_ lemaly.
My Lord, if this Monſtet of Refortiiatt-
|| ' off (which is like an infernall Spirit clad in
| © "White, and' Math a cloven head as' well: as
Mot Prevailes, you ſhalfind the ſame” de-
- tiny
South, Plymomth and Hull. Your Lordſhip
(130)
ia which was one of the flouriſhingſt King-
doms upon thar part of the earth, which
happen'd chus: The Common people ther
' repind at the Hierarchy and riches of the
Church, . therupon a Parliament was pack'd
where Biſhops were aboliſhed, what follow-
ed? The Nobles and Gentry went down
next, and afrerwards the Crown it ſelf, and
ſo it became a popular confus'd Anarchicall
State, and a Stage of blouda long time, ſo
char ar laſt, when this Magot. had . done.
workiog in the brains of the toolh peeple,
they were glad to have recourſe ro Monar-
chy again after a. world of calamities; though
it degenerated from a ſucceffive Kingdom to
an Elective. Methinks, my Lord, under. ta-
your that thoſe notorious viſible zadgements
which have fallen, upon theſe Refigers of
reform'd Religion ſhold unbeguile your
Lordſhip, and. open your eyes: For the
hand of heaven never appeared fo clearly in
any humane ations: Your Lordſhip; may
well remember what became of the #s-
thams, and Sir Alexander Cary, who: were
the two fatall wretches that began che. War
firſt, one in the North, the other in the
may
ſtiny will attend poor Znglaxd, as did Boke- 1
» _—n—_e mae SH. Aer a E _ _4& _-_
5 bs (131) |
may be alſo pleaſed ro reniember 'whar be-
came of Brooks the Lord, and Hampaen, the
firſt whereof was diſpatched by a deaf arid
dumb man out of an ancient Church (arc
Litchfield) which he was battering, and thac ?}
ſuddenly alſo, tor he felt down ſtone dead (
inthe ewinkling of an eye ; Now, one of
the greateſt cavils he had againſt our Litur-
gy was a clauſe of a Prayer ther againſt ſud-
den death z Beſides, rhe fag end of his Grace
- in that journey was, thar if the deſign was
not pleaſing ro God, he might periſh in the
aRion : For the other (Hampden) he be-
ſprinkled with his bloud, and received his
death upon the fame clod of earth in Back-
inghame ſhire where he had firft aflembled
the poor Country people like ſo many
Geele to drive them gaggling in a mutiny
to Londox with the Proteſtation in their
. Caps, which hath bin faace corn 1a fitters,
and is now grown obſolert and quite out of
uſe, Touching 79m and Stroud, thole two
worthy Champions of the topaz caule,the
firſt being opened, bis ftomack and guts
were folind to be full of pellets of bloud, the:
other had lictle or no brain in his Skull be-
Ing dead, and lefſe when he was living :
Touching thoſe who carryed: the firſt {can-
WT. KS dalous
(132)
dalous. Remonſtrance (that work of night +
and the verdidt of aſtary'd jury) to welcome
the King from Scotland, they have bin fince
(your Lordſhip knows well) the chief of the
Eleven Members impeached by che Houle.
And now they are a kind of Runnagates be-
yond the Seas, ſcorn'd by all mankind; and
baffled every where, yea, even by the Boors.
of Holland, and not daring to peep in any
populous Town bur by owle-lighr. i;
Moreover, I believe your Lordſhip hath
o00d cauſe ro remember that the ſame kind
of riotous Raſcals, which rabbled the 'K.out
of Town,did drive away. the Speaker in like
manner with many of their Memberſhips (a
mongſ whom your Lordſhip was fairly on
his way,) to ſeek ſhelter of their Janiza-
ries the Redcoars: Your Lordſhip muſt
needs find what deadly fewds fal daily 'twixy
the Presbyterian and the Independent, the
two fiery brands that have pur this poor Iſls
{o long in combuſtion, Bur tis worthy. your
Lordſhips {peciall notice how your dear Bre-
thren the Scots (whom your Lordthip fo
highly magnified in ſome of your publick
Speeches) who were at firſt brought 1n for
Hirelings againſt the King. for them, offer
themſelvesn now £0 come in againſt them! [fo
© oe the
(133)
the King - Your Lord(hip cannot be ;12n0-
rant of the ſundry claſhes that have bin
'twixt the City and their Memberſhips, 2nd
twixt their Memberſhips and their 'men of
Waror Military Officers, who have often
way'd and diſobeyed their commands : How
- this cartterdimaltian Army hath reduc'd this
cow'd City, the cheated Country, and their
once all- commanding Maſters, to a perfte&
paſſe of ſlavery, to a tru Afinin condition g
They crow over all the ancient: Nobility
and Genrry of the Kindom, though ther be
not found 'amongſt them all but two
Knights and 'tis "well kown ther be hun-
dreds of privat Gentlemen inthe Kingdom,
the pooreſt of whom, is able ro buy this
whole Hoſt with the Generall himſelf and
all che Commanders: But 'tis not the firſt
time, tkat the Kings and Nobility of Eng-
land have bin baffled by petty companions ;
I have read of Fack. Straw, pat Tyler, and
Ket the Tanner, with divers others that did
ſo, but being ſuppreſſed | ir tended to the
advantage of the King at laſt; and what a
world of exam ples are : cher in our ſtory, that
thoſe Noblemen who banded againſt the
Crown, the revenge of heaven ever found
them our early or lace atlaſt.
"Theſe, with a black cloud of recipracall
K 3 judge-
ſtict.
(134)
judgments more, which have come home
£0 theſe Reformers very doors, ſhew thar
the hand of divine juſtice is in't, and the holy
Prophet tells us, When Gods judgments are
apon earth, then the inhabitants fhall learn jn-
Touching your Lordſhip in particular,
you haye not, under fayour, eſcap 'd withour
ſome already, and I with more may nor fol-
low ; your Lordſhip may remember you loſt
one Son at Briagenorth, your dear Daughter
at Oxford, your Son-in- Law at Newbury ,
our Dayehrer-in- Law at the Charter- houſe
ofan infamous diſe:ſe, how fick your Eldeſt
ſon hath bin; how part of your houſe was
burnt in the Country, with others which I
will not now mention.
I will conclude this point with a an obſets
yation of the moſt manſtrous number of
Witches that have (warm'd fince theſe
Wars 3gainſt the King, more ( I dare ſay)
phen have bin in this Iſland fince the Deyil
tempted Eve , for in two Counties only,
Viz. Suffolk and Eſſex,ther have bin near vp-
n three hundred arraign'd, and eightſcore
executed (as I] haveirt from the Clerks of
the Peace of choſe Counties ; ) what a-bar-
þarons devili ih office ane had, ander Tolvar
SONS Dm merrsoo woo cs. _
| (135) \
of examination, to torment poor filly wo-
men wich” watchings, pinchings. and other
artifices to find them for Witches: How 0-
thers call'd ſpirits by -a new invention of
villany were conniv'd ar for ſeizing upon
young children, and hurry'»> them on ihip-
board, where having their hi... TIyen tay
were {o transform'd that cheir pit us couid
not know them, and ſo were carryed over
for new (chiſmaticall Plantations ro New-
England and other Seminaries of Rebellion.
My Lord, ther is no villany that can enter
into..the imagination of man hath bin letc
here uncommitted; no crime from the
higheſt Treaſon to the meaneſt Treſpaſle,
but theſe Retormers are guilty of, Whar
horrid a&ts of prophanes have bin perpetra-
ted up and down! the Monuments of the
dead have bin rifled ! Horſes have hin wate-
red at the Church Font, and fed upon the
holy Table ! Widows, Orphans, and Hoſpi-
tals have bia commonly robb'd, and Gods
Houſe hath bin plunder d more then any !
with what infandous blaſphemies have Pal-
Pits rung!one crying out, chat thes Parliament
Was 4s neceſſary for our Reformation, as the
comming of Chriſt was for our Redemp 41% :
Another belching our, that it God Almighty
: K 4 aid
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(136
did not proſper this Cauſe, 'twere fitting he ſhold-
change places withthe Devil : | Atother, that
the worſt thing our Savoonr did,was the making '
of the Dominical prayer, and ſaving the Thitf'
upon the Croſſe. O immortal God, is it poſ-:
ſible that England ſhold produce ſuch Mon-
ſters, or rather ſuch infernal fiends ſhap'd:
with humane bodies! yer your Lordſhip
fides with theſe men, though-they be ene-
mies t0 the Crofs, to the Church,and to'the
very name of Feſws Chriſt , ]'le inſtance * 0n-
ly in two who were eſteem'd the! Oracles of
this holy Reformation, Perrs,and Saltmurſh;
The firſt is known by thouſands to be an
infamous, jugling and ſcandalous villaine; a-
mong other feats, he gor the Mother and
Daughter with Child, as it was offered to be
publickly page ; I could ſpeak'much' of
rhe other,
he dyed Fiad\and deſperate, ' yet theſe'were
accounted the rwo Apoſtles of thetimes, '
My Lord, 'cis high time for you to recol-
let your ſelf, to enter into the private clo-
ſer of your thoughts, and ſummon them all
co counſel upon your pillow $..con{ider' well
the {laviſh condition your dear Country1sin,
weigh well'the ſad caſe your liege Lord and
Maſter is in, how he js bergav'dof ———
RA Rb. His
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ur being dead, let ir ſuffice that
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(137). |
His: Children, His Servants, His Liberty,
His: Chaplains, and of every thing in-which
there is any..comfort « obſerve. well, how
nevertheleſle,..God Almighty. . works in
Him by inſpiring Him wich equality and
calmneffe of mind, with patience, prudence
and conſtancy, How Hee makes His. very
Crofles to ſtoop unto Him, when His $Sub-
jects will not: Conſider the monſtrouſnefle
of the Propoſitions that are tendred; him,
wherein no.lefle then Crown, Sceptex, and
Sword, which. are things in-alienable from
Majeſty, arein effet demanded, nay; they
would have him tranſmir,and reſign his very
intelleuals unto them,nor only ſo,but:they
would have him make a ſacrifice of his. ſoul,
by forcing him to violace that ſolemne ſa-
cramentall Oath hee took at his Coronation
when hee: was no Minor, but come to a
full maturity of reaſon and judgement:make
it your own caſe, My Lord, and that's: the
beſt way to judge of His : Think upon the
multiplicity of ſolemne. aſtringing :Oathes
your Lordſhip hath taken, moſt whereof di-
retly and ſolely enjoyne faith and loyalty ro
His Perſon ; oh my Lord ! wrong nor your
; foule ſo much, ia compariſon of whom
Your body is: but-a rag of rottenneſle. .
Con-
(138)
Confider that a&s of loyalry- ro the
Crownare the faireſt columns to bear up -a
Noblemans name to future ages, and -regi-
ter-it im the temple of immortality, - Re:
concile- your ſel thetefore ſpeedily unto
your liege Lord and Maſter; think upon the
infinic private-obligations you. have had both
to Sire ind Son + The Father kiſs'd you-of-
ren, kiſſe you now:the. Su» leſt he. be to0
angry; 4nd Kings, you will find, my Lord,
are like the Sun inthe heavens, which may, be
clouded for atime,yet be is ſtill in hi ſphear,and
will break out againe and ſhine as glariouſly as
ever; Lerme tell your Lordſhip thar-rthe
people begin to grow extream weary of their
Phy ſirians, they find the. remedy to be tar
worſe then their former diſeaſe: ; nay they
ſick nor to call fome of them meer Quack-
ſalvers rather then Phyſicians 5; Some goe
Further, 8 ſay they are no more a.Parliament
then a-Pye-powder Court at Bartholmemw-
Faiz, ther being all the efſenciall parts of a
trueParliament wanting in chis,as fairneſle.of
eleQions, freedome of ſpeech, fulneſſe: of
Members,nor have they any #4ad ar all ;. be:
ſides, they have. broken all the fundameacal
rules, and Priviledges of Parliament, and
diſhonoured that high Court - more: then; a-
5 mn ny
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(139)
ny thing elſe: They have raviſh'd MagnaChar-
14 which they are {worn to maintain ,
taken away our birth-right therby,
and tranſgrefled all the laws of heaven
and earth : Laſtly, they have moſt perjuri-
ouſly berrayed the truſt the King repoſed iti
chem, and no lefle che cruſt their Country re=
poſed in them, ſo that if reaſon and law were
now in date, by the breach of their Privi-
ledges,and by betraying the ſaid double rruſt
thar-is pur in them , they have difſolved
themſelves ipſo fat7o I cannor tell how ma- |
ry thouſand times, notwithſtanding that
monſtrous grant of the Kings, that fatall a7F
of contin#ance: And truly, my Lord, I am
not to this day ſatisfied of the legality
(though I am ſatisfied of the forcibleneſſe
of that AR) whether it was in his Majefties
power to Paſſe it or no 5 for the law ever
preſuppoſerh theſe clauſes in all conceſfions
of Grace,inall Parents,Charters,and Grants
whatſoever the King paſleth, Salvs jure regio,
ſalvo are corone, | _
- 'To conclude, as I preſume to give your
Lordſhip theſe bumble cautions and advice
in particular, fol offer ir ro all other of your
rank,office, order and Relations, who have
fouls to ſave, and who by ſolemn _—_
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ſable Oaths have ingaged themſeves to be
tru and loyall co the Perſon of King Charls.
Touching his political capacity, it is a fancy:
which hath bin exploded in all other Parlia-
merits except in that mad infamous Parlia-
ment wher it was firſt harched ; That which
bears upon Record rhe name of. Inſanum Par-
liementumtoall poſteriry, but many Ads:
have paſſed fince chat; ic ſhold be: high and
horrible Treaſon 70 ſeparat or diftinguilh the
Perſon of the King from His Power ; I believe,
as I ſaid before;this diſtintion will not ſerve
their turn at the: dreadful Bar of divine ju-
Rice in the. other world : indeed that Rule of
the Pagans 'makes for them, $i Frsjuran-
dum violandum eſt, Tyrannes cauſt violandum
eft, 1f an Oath be any way wiolable, tis to get 4
Kingdom : We find by woful experience that
according to this maxime they have made
themſelves all Kings by violation of fo ma-
ny Oaths; They have monopoliz'd che whole
power and wealth of che Kingdom, in their
own hands ; they cur, ſhuffle, "deal, and turn ©
up What trump they pleaſe,being Judges and
Parties In every thing.
My Lord,he who preſents theſe humble
adverciſments to yourLordſhip,1s one who 1s |
taclin a r0 rhe Parliament of Zygl.in as high a
| degree
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degree of' affeQion as poſſibly a free-born
Subject can be 3 One beſides, who witheth
yourLord(hips good, with the preſervation of
your ſafety and honour more really then he
whom you intruſt wich your ſecreteſtaffaires,
or the White Few of the Upper Houſe, who
hath infuſed ſuch pernicious principles into
you 3 moreover,one who hath ſome drops of
bloud running in his veins, which may claim
kindred with your Lordſhip: and laſtly, he is
one who would kiſs your feet,in lieu of your
hands,if your Lordſhip wold be ſo ſenſible of
' the moſt deſperat caſe of your poor Coun=-
try,as ro ewploy the intereſts, the opinion
and power you have to reſtore the King your
Maſter byEngliſh waies,rather then a hungry
forrein people, who are like to bring nothing
but deſtruRion in the van, confuſion in the
rear,and rapine in the middle, ſhold haye the
honour of ſo glorious a work.
So humbly hoping your Lordſhip will no
take with the left hand, what I offer. with the
rhe, Ireſt,
; the Priſon of | :
the Fleet 3. Seps — Tour Lordſh;ps truly
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Up the Contrivers and Inſtruments
thereof are till ſtirring and
|| watchfull, They are commonly more
pragmaticall and fuiler of Devices then
thoſe ſober-minded men,who while they g9
on till in the plaine road of Reaſos, banks
the King, and knowne Lawes to' juſtifie and.
proteR them, hold themſelts ſecure enough,
and ſo think no hurt ; Fadas eyes were o-
pen to betray his Maſter, while che reſt of
his fellow-ſervants were quietly aſleep. _
The Members at We#mizsſter were men
of the firſt gang, for their Miſchieyonus
braines were alwayes at work how to com-
paſſe their ends 5 And one of their prime
policies in order thereunto was to caſt a(-
L ſoerfinns
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(146)
Perſions on. their So hes to alienat the
" eions and fidelity of his pee ple from him
notwithſtanding that beſides their pub-
| ick Declarations they made new Oaths
and proteſtations, whereby | they {wore
to make Him the beſt belovy'd King that e-
ver was) Nor did this Diaþolicall malice
terminzf only within the bounds of his own
DPominions, bur it extended to, infe&t other
Princes and States of the Reformed Chur-
ches abroad to make Him ſuſpected in his
| Religion, & that he was branling in his belief,
and upon the high way to Rope ; To which
purpole they ſent miſfives and clandeſtine
Emiſffaries to divers places beyond the Seas,
whereof torren Authors make mention in
their writings.
At that time when this was in the height
of ation, the paſfage from Loudon to axfad,
where the King kept then his Court, was ſq £
narrowly blockd np, that a fly could ſcarce |: -
paſſe ; ſome Ladies of honor being ſearch'd
in an unſeemly and barbarous manner ;
eherecing the penner of the following
Declaration, finding his Royal maſter to be
fo groſly wad aced, made his Duty to go be-
yond al] preſumptions, by cauling the fayd
Declaration to be prinred and publiſh'd in
Latin,
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(147).
"Latin, French and Engliſh, whereof great
numbers were ſent beyond the ſeas to
France, Holland, Germany, Suiſſerland, Den-
© mark, Swethland, and to the Engliſh planta-
"tions abroad, to vindicat his Majeſty in this
Point, which produc'd very happy and advan-
ragious effects for Salmtifius, and other for-
"rin writers of great eſteem- ſpeake of it in
their printed works, The Declaration was
as followeth.
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Singulari Omnipotentis Dei providentia Fe
eli, Scotiz, Francix & Hiberniz
Rex, Fidet Defenſor, &c, Univerſis et
fingulis qui prajens bo ſeriptim ceu pro- |
teltationem mmſpexerint ,potiſs imumRe- "|
formate Religionis cultoribus cujuſcung; |
fit gentis, by aut conditionts, jon
eem, &c.
UM ad aures noſtras non
ita pridem fama pervene-
rit, finiftros quoſdam
rumores, literaſque poli
tica vel peniciaſs potius
quorundam induftria ſparſas efle, 6c
nonnull:1s proteſtantium - eccleſizs in
exter!s partibus emiſſas,nobis eſſe ani-
mum & conſil1um ab illa Orthodoxa |
L 3 Re-
(150).
R eligione quam ab 1ncunabulis im-
bibimus, & ad hoc uſque momentum
per integrum vitz noſtrx curriculum
amplexi ſumus recedend1 ; 6 Papiſ-
mum in hxc Regna iterum introdu-
cendi, Quz conjeCtura, ceu nefanda
potius calumnia nullo prorſus nixa vel
imaginabili fundamento horrendos
hoſce tumultus, & rabiem pluſquam
belloinamin Anglia (uſcicavit ſub pre-
texu cujuſdam (chimericx) Retor-
mation1s regimini, tegibuſque hujus
Domini non ſolum incongruz, fed
incompatibilis: Y oLumus, uttot!
Chriltiano Orbi innoteſcat, ne mini-
mam quidem anithum- noftrum inci-
difle cogitatiunculam hoc aggre4ien-
di,aut tranſverſum unguem ab illa Re-
ligione diſcedend1 quam cam corona,
' ſeptroque hujus regni folenni , & fa-
cramentalz juramento.tenemur profi-
teri, protegere & propugnare, Nectan-
Go | cunt
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tum conftantiſhma noſtra praxis, &
quotidiana io exercittis pretare Re
ligionis przſentia, cum crebris in facte_
noſtrorum agminum aſſeverationibus;
publiciiqueprocerum hujus Regni ce-
{timonits,& ſedula inregiam noſtram
{| ſobolem educando circumſpeRtione |
I (omiſlisplurimis aliis argumentis )lus
culentiſs1me hoc demonſtrat, fed eti-
am fxliciſsimum illud matrimonium
quod inter noftram primogenicam, &
iloftriſumum principem Aut icun
ſponte contraximus, idem fortiſsime
atteſtatur: Quo nuptialifzdere inſuper
conſtat, nobis non eſſe propoſitum il-
lam profiter: ſolummodo, ſed expan-
dere, & corroborare quantum in no-
bis ſitum eſt; :
Hanc facroſantam Avglicanz
Chriſti Ecclehz Religionem , - tot-
Theotogorum convocationibtis ſan-
citamtot corfiiciorumedictis confit-
IMACAIN?
(152)
matam, tot Regiis Diplomatibus ſta-
bilicam, una cum regimine Eccleſiaſti-
co, & Liturgia eiannexa, quam licur-
- Siam, regumenque celebriores prote-
fNantium Authores tam Germani,quam
Galli, tan Dant quam Helvetici, ram
'Batavi, quam Bohemi multis elogiis
nec fine quadam invidia in ſuis publi-
cis {criptis comprobant & applaudunt,
ut 1a tranſa&tionibus Dordrechtane Sy-
odus, cui nonnulli noſtroram preſu-
lam, quorum Dignitati devuca preftica
fuic reverentia , interfuerunt, apparet
Iſtam, inquimus Religionem, quam
Regins noſter pater (beatiſsimz me-|
mori#) in 1l]a celeberrima fidei ſux
Confeſsione omnibus Chriſtianis prin- n
Cipibus (ut & hexcprexſens noſtra pro- Þ r
', . feſtatioexhibita) publice aſſerit : Iſtam;,
iftam Religionem ſolenniter proteſta-
mur,Nos integram, ſartam-tetam, 6
inviolabilem conſeryaturos, & pro -
| nil!
CR ET
:
Cer IONS
LET
d
(153)
ril1 noftro (divino adjuyante Numi-
ne) uſque ad extremam vitz noſtrz pe-
riodum proteuros, & omnibus no-
ſtris Eccleſaſticis pro muneris noftr1,
& ſupradicti ſacroſanctijuramenti ra-
tione doceri, & prxdicari curaturos.
Quapropter injungimus&in mandatis
damus Omnibus miniſtris noſtris in
exteris partibus tam Legacis , quam
Reſidentibus, Agentibuſque & nunci-
is, reliquiſquenoſtris ſubditis ubicun-
que Orbis Chriftiani terrarum aut cu-
r1ofitatis aut comercii gracia degenti-
bus, hanc ſolennem & finceram no-
fram proteſtationem, quandocunque
{cſe obtulerit loci & temporis oportu-
'nitas, communicare, aflerere, afleve--
are.”
Dat. in Academia et Civitate noſtia
Oxonienfi pridie Idns Mail, 164 4+
Charles .
——
— — _ <Xhooobs _
——— _ —_—
(155)
ww .-
vidence of Almighty God ,
France,and lreland,Defendor
of the Faith, e#c. To all who
profeſs the tru Reformed Pro-
reſtanc Religion,of what Na-
tion,degree,and conditionſo-
ever they be to whom this
preſent Declaration ſhall-
come, Creetung.
*® Heras We are given to
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Churches in farein parts by thy 1
Pollitick, or rather the pernicious Fi
induſtry of fom ill-affefed per-[,,
ſoris,that we have an inclination to 'R
recede from that Orthodox Rell,
gion, which we were born, bapti-
>ed,and bred in,combichWe e baye
firmly profeſes and prafliſed
rhroughout t whol courſe of our
life mo this moment, and that IWe
intend to give way to the mtrod |
Qion,and publick exerciſe of Pope-
ry again inOur Dominions:Which
conjeture or rather moſs deteftal ble
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* febeſe horrid tumults,and more then
*Albarbarous wars throughout this
by ouriſhing Iſland,under pretext of
I kind of Reformation » Which
-[wold not only prove incongruous,
ON but incompatible with the funda-
| mental Laws and Government of
A Kingdom, We do defire that
I the whol Chriſtian world ſhold take.
4 notice and reſt aſſured, that W, C
Tf never entertained m Our imagina-.
e tion the leaſt thought to attempt.
FI ſuch athing,or to depart a jot from
- | that holy Religion, which when We
, received the ( r0wn and Scepter of
e | this Kingdom, Ve took a mo#t ſo-
| lemn Sacramental Oath to profeſs
and
Ty
ini proteft,” Nor Hoth Our ti
conftant prathiſe and pocifia
viſible preſence in the exerciſe of
thu ſole Religion, with [0 many
Aſſeverations mn the head of Oi |
Armies,and the publick alteftatith
of Our Barons, with the circum-
ſpeion uſed in the edycation'
our Royall Off. fpring, beſides di-
vers other undeniable Arguments,
only demonſtrate thu; But alſo
that happy Alliance 0 of Marvia >
V Ie contratted twixt SO re ft 1
Daughter , and the aftriout :
Prince of Otenge, moſt clearly || >
confirmes the reality 0 F Our t i- [
tentions herein ; by hich N u-
(159)
tial ingagement it appears further,
' that Our endeavours are not only
to make a bare profeſuon thereof
in Our own Dominions, but to in-
large and corroborate it abroad as
much. as lieth in Our Power :
This moſh holy Religion of the
Anglican Church, ordained by fo
many Convocations of learned
Divines, confirmed by ſo many
Aits of National Parliaments,
and fir engthned by ſo many Royal
Proclamations together with the
Eccleſraſtick diſcipline, and Litur-
gy therunto appertaining, which
Liturgy and diſcipline, the moſt
eminent of Proteſtant Authors, as
Td pell
| (160)
well Germans as French , as well
Danes as Swedes and Swittzens,
as well Belgians az Bohemtans,do
with many Elogies (and not with.
out a kind of Envy) approve and
applaud in their publick Writings,
particularly in the tranſaftions of
the Synod of Dort, wherin beſides
other of Our Lvines (who after-
wards were Prelates) one of our
Biſhops aſvifted , to whoſe dignity
all due reſpeits and precedency was
given: {hu Religion Ie - ſay,
which Our Royal Father of- bleſ-
fed memory doth publickly aſſert in
Hs famous Confeſsion addyesd,
as we alſo do thu our Proteſtation;
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to all Chriſtian Princes,, Thus,
tha moſt holy Religion, ' with the
Hierarchy and Luurgy therof,
We ſolemnly proteſt, that by the
help of Almighty God,we will en-
deavour to Our utmoſt power, and
laſt period of our hife,to keep entire
and inviolable, and will be care-
ful,according to Our duty to Hea-
ven,and the tenor of the aforeſaid
moFt ſacred Oath at Our Corona-
tion, that all Our Ecclefraſticks in
their ſeveral degrees and incum-
bences ſhall preach and praftiſe the
ſame. VF herfore V Ve. enjoyn and
command all Our Miniſters of
State beyond the Seas, afwell Am-
M11 baſſa-
\ (x62) |
;edere: as « Ref /idents, Apents ,
and Meſſengers, And VVe difor
all the reft of Our loving ſubjetts
that ſojourn either for curioſity or
commerce in any forein parts, to
communicate, uphold and aſſert
thi Our ſolemn and fmcere prote-
Flation when opportwntty id time
and place wm be offered.
CHARLES, parla Providence de Dieu
Roy de lagrand Bretagne, de France, |
et d Irlande, Defenſear de la Foy, &c.
A tous ceux qui ceſte preſente Declaration
verront , particulierement a Cenx de la
'K Religion Reformee de quelque Nation,
degieon condition qu'ils ſotent, 9 alut.
92D Y ant receu advis de bonne main
27 que plufteurs faux rapports &
© lectres ſont efparſes parmi les
> Egliſes Reformices de la la mer;
, par la polirique,on pluſtoſt la per-
- DU 7icienſe induftrie de perſonnes mal affetion-
fies a noſtre governement; que nous auons
deſſein a receder de celle Religion que
Nous auons profeſse & pratique tour le
temps de noſtre vie iuſques a preſent ; & de
vouloir introduire 1a papaute derechef en
nos Dominions, Laquelle conjecture, ou ca-
lamnie pluſtoſt, appuyee ſur nul fundement
imaginable; a (uſcite _ horribles cumulces
Z
(164)
& allumele feu d' une treſſanglant- cuerre
en cous les quatre coins de ceſte fleurifſante
Monarchie, toubs pretexte d' une (chymert-
que) Retormarion, la quelle {eroit incompa-
tible avec le governement 6 les loix fonde-
mentales de ce Royaume. |
Nous Deſtrons, quil ſoit notoire a tout le
monde, que la moindre penſee de ce faire n
a pas Entree en noſtre imagination, de depar-
tir ancunement de cell' OcthodoxeReligion,
qu auecla Couronne 8& le ſceptre de ce
Royaume Nous tommes tenus par un ſer-
ment {olennel & ſacramentaire a proteger &
defendre. Ce qu' appert non ſevlement par
noſtre quotidienne preſence es Exercies de
la ditz Religion, avec, tant d' affe:yerations a
la teſte de nos Armees, & la publicque Ar-
teſtation de nos Barons,avec le {oin que nous
TENOns en la noutrtituredes princes Ge 'prin-
cefles nos enfans, Mais le treſ-heureux ma-
rage que nous avons conclu entre la noſtre
plus alinee, & le tres-illuſtrie prince d' 0-
renze eneſt encore un treſ- evident teſmoig-
nage,par la quell alliance il apperrc auſly ,que
noltre defir eſt de n' en faire pas vne nue pro-
feſſton ſeulement dicelle, mais de la vouloir
eſtendre & corroberer autant qu' il nous
eſt poſſible : Ceſt' Orthodoxe Religion de
X | leglife
fois & quantes que I ocafion fe prefentera.
(165)
legliſe Anglicaze Ordonnee par tant de con-
ventione de Teologues, confirmee par tant
de arreſts d Parlementr, & fortifie par tant d'
EdiRs royaux auec la diſcipline & la Lytur-
oic a elle appartenanr, laquelle diſcipline 8&
Ly turgte les plus celebres Autheurs Prote-
ſtants, tant Francois, qu Allemanads ; tant
Senders que Siſſes, tant Belgiens que Bohc-
mens cpprouent entierement 6 non fans
quelqu envie en leur eſcrits particelierement
en la Synode de Dort, cu un de nos Eueſques
aſſiſtoir, & la Reverence 8 precedence deue
a ſa dignite Ecclefiatique luy fut exatement
rendue : Ceſte tres-ſainte Religion que no-
ſtre feu pere de ir2s-heureuſe memoire ad-
uoue en ſa celebre Cornfeſsioy dela Foy ad-
dreflee come nous faiſons ceſte Declaration
a tous Princes Chreſtiens ; Nous Proteſtons
que moyennaat la grace de Dieu, nous ta-
{cherone de conſeruer ceſte Religion invio-
lable,& en ſon entier (elon la meſure de pu-
iflance que Dieu amis entre nos mains; Ec
nous requerons & commandons a tous nos
miniſtres d' eſtat rant Ambaſſadeurs,queRe-
iidens, Agens ou meſſagers, 8 a tous autres
nos ſubjects qui tontleurſeiour es payseftr.n-
Sers de communiquer, maintenir 6 adou-
ner ceſtenoſtre ſolennelleProteſtartion toures
APOLOGS
OR
FASLEIiY
eMYTHOLOGIZD. |
Out of whoſe Moralls the
State and Zſtory of the late unhap- ,
py Difſtrations in Great Britain and
He may be Extracted ;
Some of which Apologs have prov'd
PROPHETICATL.
———N eſt niſi} Fabula Mundw.
———
LONDON,
Printed in the Year, 1661.
(169)
Ay X
S423S44P42D4828,
hub TELE TEIES FAPTAPF&? ES | :
Tomy Honored and known friend
Sir I, C. Knight.
;mpetiious T orrent have
lately ruſh'din upon/us,
The! interception and o-
penng of Letters is none of the leaſt,
For it hath quite bereft all ingenious
Spirits of that correſpondency and
ſweet communication of fancy, which
bath bin alwaies eſteemed the beſt fuel
of aſeEtion.,and the. very marrow of
friendſhip. And truly, in my judge-
ment, this cuſtom may be termed not
7 a Barbarime, but the baſeſt n”
0
(170)
of Burglary that can be, cis a plunde-
ring of the very brain, as is ſpoken in
another place. |
We are reduced here to that ſervile
condition, of rather to fuch'a” height
of {lavery, that we have nothing left
which may entitle us free Rationall
creatures ; the thought ic ſelt cannot ſay
is free; much leſs the tongue or pen.
Which makes me impart unfo:Youthe
traverſes of theſe turbulent times,under
_ the following fables. I know'you Are
an exquiſite Aſtronomer. I know the
deep infpection you havein-all- parts
of Philoſophy, Lknow youare-a good
Herald,and I have found in your Li-
brary, ſundry books: of ArchiteRure,
and Comments upon Yitruvius; The
unfolding of theſe Apologues will
put you-to it in all theſe, and will re-
quire, your ſecond, if not your third |
thoughts,and when you haveconcoct-
= ol
SD. VT TIZ. S CTY
L429,
- Jedthem well believe,ſelſe Iam much
deceived in your Genius)they will af.
ford you ſom entertainment, and do
the errand upon which they are ſent,
which is, to communicate unto you
he moſt material paſſages'of this
long'd-for Parlement, and of theſe ſad
confuſions which have ſo uonhing'd,
diſtorted, tranſvers'd, tumbled and di-
flocated all things, that England roay
be termed now, in compariſon of
what it was,no other then an Anagram
of 4 Kingdom. One thing Ipromiſe: you,
in the peruſal of theſe Parables, that
you ſhall find no gingles 1n them, or
any. thing ſordid or ſcurrilous,the com
mon dialect and diſeaſe of theſe tines,
(So 1 leave you to the gard and gan
dance,
of God and Vertu who 4 fill advance
Their Favorits,maugre the frownes of Chance,
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The greax CONJUNCTION,
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Parlement of STAR Ss
v
SSIRS Pon a time, the Stars complain-
S ed to Apollo, that he diſplayed
& his beams too much upon ſome
AS malignant Planets ; That the
"= Moonehad too great aſhare of
his inflaence, and that he was carryed away
too much by her motion : They complained
alſo, that the conſtellation of Libra (which
holds the ballance of Juſtice) had bur a dim
lighr, and that the Aſfrea» Court was
2rown altogether deſtructive, with divers
other grievances. Apollo hereupon, com-
manded Mercury to ſummona generall Sy-
nod , where ſome. our of every A4ſteriſme
throughout the whole Firmament were to
meet ; Apollotold them, I am placed here by
the finger of the Almighty, to be Monarch
of the skie,ro be the-Meaſurer of Time, and
(174) $6:
every foure and twenty. houres: I am alſ
the Fountaine of Heate and Light, which,
though I uſe to diſpence and diffuſe in equal
proportions through the whole Uniyerſe;
- yet there is difference *cwixt objeds,/1
Caſtle hath more of my light then a Cottage,
and the Cedar hath mare of me then che
Shrub, according ro tHe common axiom,
Lute] wid recipitur, recipitur ad modum regitpis
entis, But couching che Moo”, (the ſecond
vey nog }I would have you know,
lat ſhe is deareſt unto mee, therefore Jet
none repine thatl cheriſh her withmy beams,
and confer more light on her then any other,
Touching the malignant Players, or any 0-
ther Star, of what magnitude ſoeyer, har
moves .not 1n a regular motion, or hath run
any excemrick exorbitant courſe, or that|
would have made me to moye out of the
Zodigh, I putthem oyer unto you, that upon
due legall examination aad proof, they may
be «nſpher'd or. extinguiſhed, But I would
have this done wich- moderation ; I would
have you to keep as neer as you can between
have.things reduced to their true Principles,
1 wold have things reformed, not 78in'd; 1
would
| I W(
Tgoe upon his errand round about the worlc ith
(175)
would have the ſpirit of malice and lying,
lhe ſpiric of -partiality and injuſtice, the
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ſpirit. of tyranny and rigour, the baſe ſpirix
of feare and jealouſie to be farre from this
glorious Syderean Synod 3 I would haye all
private intereſts refleting upon revenge or |
profit, to be utterly baniſhed hence : More-
over, I would not have you to make. grie-
vances, where no grievances are, or dangers
where no dangers are. I would have no cre-
ation of dangers; I would have you. to hus-
band time as parſtmoeniouſly as you can, left
by keeping roo long together, and amuſing
the world with ſuch tedious hopes of redreſs
| of grievances, you' prove your ſelf the great-
eſt grievance at lalt, and ſo from Starrs be-
come Gomets + Laſtly, I would have yoube
cautious how you tamper with my Sove-
ragn power, and chop Logicke with mee in
that point ; you know what became of Him
who once preſumed to. meddle with my
Chariot, | Hereupon the whole Hoſt of
Heaven- being conſtellated thus into one
preat Body, fell into a ſerious deliberation of
things,and Apolic himſelf continued his pre-
ſence, and ſate often amoneſt them in his full
laſtre, but in the meane time, whileſt they
vere in the midft of their conſultarions, ma-
war ny
—"M (x76)
ny odde Aſpet#s, Oppoſitions and Conjunc?t-
ons hapned between them : for ſome of the
Sporades, bur ſpecially-thoſe mongrel ſmall
vulgar ſtars, 'which make up the -Galaxis
(the milkie way in Heaven) gatherin a' tu-
multuous diforderly manner abour the body |
of Apollo, and commit many 'ſtrange infy-
lencies, which cauſed” Apollo (taking young
Phoſphorus the Morning-Star with -him)
ro retire himſelf, and in a juſt indignation to
withdraw his - Zight from the Synod: ſo-all
began to be involy'd in a ſtrange kind of
confuſion and - obſcurity; they groaped in
the dark, not knowing which way to move,
or what courſe to take; all things went Can-
.cer-like retrograde, becauſe the Sun derain-
ed his wonted light and #rradiations from
:%
A.
"A" ———_—
<« Such as the 'S#x is in the Firmament;a
© Monatch is 10 his Kingdom:for,as the'Wi
« ſeſt'of men faith, 7» the light of the Kings
| © Countenance ther is life ; and believe that]
'« to be the Morall of this 4frean Fable.
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Oprmnoyles.
OR,
T he Great Councell of Bi R D $:
: T Pona time the Birds met in Coun-
|. cell, forredreſfſe of ſoani excravagan;
We ces chat had flowa unto the wolat:
Empires Nor was it the firſt time that Bird
met thus; forthe Phryzian Fabler rells us of
divers meetings of theirs : And after, bim
in we read that: Apollonizs Thyanewus, under-
ve, | took the interpretation of their language,
ex-J and co-be their. Drogoman: | TT
in-} : *They thus: aſſembled in one Great, Cowze
2Mf| by the call of the Eagle their unqueſtioned
-? | hereditary King, and by vercue of his Royal
; | Authoricy, complaiats were broughr, chat
divers Cormorants and Harpies, with other
; | Birds of prey, had got.in amongſt them, who
taf did much annoy and'inyade che: publick li-
iy berry : ſundry other Birds were. queſtioned,
ws] which-cauſed ſome to rake a timely inch,
hach flight 1aco another aire. Kc.
As they were thus conſulting for adyance-
- | ment of the coaimon good, many Mechanicks,
& Kooks, Horn-Owles and S$e4- Gulls Marigers,
FE N ' flackd
- (76)
Ld
ny odde Aſed?s, oppoſitions and Conjunii-|
ons hapned. between them : for ſome of the
Sporades, bur ſpecially-choſe mongrel ſmall
vulgar ſtars, which make up the Galaxia
(the milkie way in Heaven) gather-in a'ty-
multuous diforderly manner abour the body
of Apollo, and commit many 'ſtrange infy-
lencies, which cauſed” pelo (taking youyg
Phoſphorus the Morning-Star with © him)
'to retire himſelf, and in a juſt indignation to
withdraw his LZsght from the Synod: ſo-all
began to be involy'd in'a ſtrange kind of
confuſion and- obſcurity; they groaped in
the dark, not knowing which way to' move,
or what courſe to take; all things went Can-
.cer-like retrograde, becauſe the Sun -derain-
ed his wonted light and rradiations from
A.
Pe 4 . —_—__
« Sach as the 'S#7 is in the Firmament;a
© Monatch is in his Kingdom:for;as the:Wi
« ſeſt'of men faith, 7» the light of the Kings
&« Countenance ther ts life ; and T believe that
'* ro be the Morall of this Aftrean Fable. |
Oprinayh
©
(077)
Op mein -
OR,
The Great Councell of BiRDd ; vi
Sol 4
Pon a time the 2s met in Coun:
. cell, for redreſſe of ſomi extravagan;
WW Ces that had lowa unto the velatill
Empire; Nor wasit the firſt time that Brgy
met thus; forthe Phryzian Fabler tells us
divers meetings of theirs : And after, him
we read that- Apo/lonius Thyaneus, under-
rook the interpretation of their language,
and co-be their. Progoman:
"They thus: aſſembled in one Great Covie
by thecall of the Eagle their unqueſtioned
heredicary King, and by vertue of his Royal
Authority, complaints were brought, chat
divers Cormorants and Harpies, with other
Birds of prey, had got.in amongſt them, who
did much annoy and'inyade che publick li-
berty : (undry other Birds were. queſtioned,
which-cauſed ſome to rake a timely inch,
flight 1ato another aire. _ &C.
| Axthey were thus conſulting for adyance-
ment of the conimon good, many Mechanicks,
Rooks, Born: Ones and Sea- Gull; Matigers. |
N ' flack'd
» (198)
flock'd together, and fluttered about the
place they were aſſembled in, where. they
kept a hideous noiſe, and committed many
outrages, -and nothing cold. ſarisfie them,
but the Griffons head, which was therfore
w 5 Chopt off, and offered up as a facri-
fice to make them leave their: chattering,
and to appeaſe their tury for the time.
"They fell foul afrerwards npon the 'Pies,
23:7. © who were uſed to be much reveren-
ced,- and ro fit upon the higheſt pearch in
char great Aſſembly : they called them Ido-
latrous and inauſpitious Birds, they hated
theit mix'd colour, repined -at their -long
train, they tore cheirwhite feachers,!and
were ready to'peck out their: very. -eyes:
they did what they could ro. put chem: in
owles feathers (as the poor >beep was in-the
Fvolfs skin) to make them the: more hated,
and to be ſtar'd and hootedat wherfoeyer
they. paſſed. _ The' Pies - being thus
ſcard, preſented a Petitiqn to-che roy-
all Zagle, . and to this-his. great-- Coun-
ſell, 'thar chey mighr be fecared x0 repaire
ſafely thither to fic and conſult, according
tothe ancient Lawesof the Yolatill 'Eqmpire
continued ſo many ages without controll-
ment or queſtion : in which Petition. rey
W- Mx »t inſerred
_ they had'imade, thatiho: Ac-whatoe
| (199)
inſerred: 4 Proteſt'or Caveat, that no pub-
lique atthold paſſerin the /incerm. This
Sapplication, both tor maccerang form, was
excepted againſt; and.'cryed up to. be high
Treaſon, ſpecially that indefioice Proteſt
thold- be: of 'any - validity without -cheas,
which was alledged: to derogate fromthe
High - Law-making power of that: Grear
Counſel, and tended ro- retard -and- difturb
the great Affaires which were then in agica»
tion; fo the poor Fres,as if by that Pericion
they had like the Black-bird voided Lime
co catch themſelyes; (according to the' Pro
verb, Turdus carat fibi malum) were fudden-
ly hurryed away into 2 Cage, and after ten
long Moneths canvaſhng ofthe point, they
were unpearch'd, and rendered for ever un-
capablero be Members of that Court, they
were ſtruck dumb and voice-leſs, and ſud-
denly as ir were blown up away. thence ,
though without any force of powder, as
once was plotted aginft chem. Bur chis was |
done when-a thin number of the adverſe
Birds had kept ſtill cogerker, and ſtuck «loſe
a24inſt chern, and alſo after that the Bdcon-
cetning them had bin once ejected, which
Na of
they humbly:conceived:by the ancient order
E Be, & s
bn rl
Ibn b—— va Foreman yimn tte choneepifes
EX WES whe pn es nts A —eE—— —_ .
" . OJ -
of that Court could not be re-admitted: in
the ſame Seſſion, ' Thy Petittoned from
_ -theplace they were cooped in, that for he:
yens ſake, for the honour of that noble
Counſell; for Truch and Juſtice ſake, rhey
w#ing as free-born Deniſons of the atery Re-
5100, as any other Yolatills whatſoever, their
charge imight be perte&ted,' that fo they
might be brought ro legall criall, and nor
forced tolanguiſh in ſach captivity. They
Pleaded to have done nothing but what
they had precedents for : And touching the
Caveat they had inſerted, ir was a thing un-
uſuall*in every inferiour Court of Judica-
ture, and had they forborn'to haye done'it,
they had betrayed their own neſt, and done.
wrong to their ſucceſſors, It was affirmed
they-had bin Members of that Body politi-
_ que, long before thoſe lower ptarch'd Biras,
who now wold caſt them ouc;and that they
had bin their beſt friends to introduce rhem
to have any thing do do in'that generall
Counſel! : they prayed they might nor be
Scot, fo cruelly uſed ,. as the Solan geoſe, and
Redſhanke had uſed them, who were not
content to brail and' clip their wings only,
but to ſear them ſo, that they ſhold never
grow againz to handle them ſo unmercitully,
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was not the way to.make their adverf: ries
Birds of Paradice: -in fine, they adviſed
chem to remember what.the fick Kite's Mo-
ther anſwered him, when he deſired her to
pray tg:the Gods for him, How-canſt thyy,
ſaid ſhe, expet# any good fromthe Gods, whoſe
Temples thou haſt ſo violated? Ar laſt, upon
the importuaicy and picifulneſs of their Pe-
titions, the accuſation of Treaſon, which
kept ſuch a noiſe ar firſt, being declined a-
gainſt them, they were releaſed in. the
morning, but cooped up again before night :
and after the revolution of four full Moons,
they were,,reſtared again to a conditionall
TY under which chey remain till this
day.
Ther wants not ſom, who affirm, that in
that Great Counſlell of Birds, ther were ſom
Decoys (and 'tis well known- where Decoys
were firſt bred) who called in, not only
theſe mongrill obſtreperops Birds from! a-
broad to commit ſuch outrages- as were
ſpoken of | before, bur drew after them alſo.
many of the greateſt Birds, ; who ate in that
Aſſembly, to follow them whither - they
lſted : Others, who were of a more gene-
rous. extraRion, diſdained to be ſuch Buz-
zards, as' to be carryed away hood-wincked
N 3 | in -
ff 41/
6 (182) — |
in that manner, tobe Birds of their 'feathey,
Thus a viſible: faRion was hatched 1n'' this
rear Counſel, asf the faid Decoyes had
diſgorged and let fall fom grains of Hemlock
feeds amongſt them to diſtemper their
brains. Or, as if fom Spinturnix, that farall
incendiary Bird, or ſom ill-boding Scrrech-
owle, which as ſtories tell us appeared onte
at Roe, in a famous, though unfortunate
great Counſell (when ther was.a ſchiſm ih
the Popedom) had appeared likewiſe here,
Ther wanted not alſo amoneft them ſom
Amphibious Birds, as the Baraacte, which'is
neither Fiſh nor Fowle; and the canning
Bait, who ſometimes profeſſeth himſelf a
Bird, ſometimes a Mouſe. Twill not ſay
ther were any Paphlagoman Birds amongſt
them, who are known to have double hearts,
But *ris certain, that in this' confuſion ther
were ſom maleyolent Birds, and many' of
'them ſo young, thar they were ſcarce
Feded, who like the Walſpe in the Fable,
conſpired to fire the Eagles neſt, (and 4
Waſp may ſomtimes do miſchief toan Eagle
as 2 Monſe to an Elephant,) Moreover ſom of
theſe light brained Birds: flew ſo high, ' that
they ſeemed to arrogate to: themſelyes, and
Exerciſe royall power, byt fooliſhly' = we
E | ,n0W
(2x83)
, | Know what became of the Crow upon, the
« || Ram's back, when ſhe taought to imitare |
4 | the Eagle: And as it was obſerved thar
+ | they were moſt eager ro attempr thoſe high
+ | inſolenfies againſt Fove's Bird, who had bin
l
4
Fark naked, and as bare as Cootes, unleſlſe
he had feathered them; fo thar the little
e | Azt was.more grateful ro Eſops Bird; then
+ | thoſe Birds were to the Zagle their liege
n | Lord and Maſter. But the high-born Bird
- | with the two golden wings, the noble Faxl-
n | cons, the Martlets, the Ravens, ; Herr,
js | the Swan, the Ghough, and all the E. South,
3 ancient Birds of the Mountains E W<*m-
: | remained faithful and firm ro the _ s. Dover.
y | £42/e, and ſcornedto be carryed 7:
F _ by ſuch Decoyes ; As alſo PB
s || the generous 0friches, who unleſſe they
er | ad had an extraordinary ſtomach, could
of || not haye digeſted ſuch #roz pills as were of-
& | fered them. Amongſt other great Birds
e, which banded againſt the Eagle, the flying
2 | Dragons, Green and White, © x, pemb.
h | were bufie, ſpecially che Whicez = wav. .
of | And for the Green, conſidering he was an
ir @ ancient Bird of the Mountains, and thar his
14 | Progenitors had bin fo reaowned for their
je | Fare loyaly to the Crown, every. one won-
Wes N4 dered
(184)
dered that he ſhold be tends fo far' anal
forefaid Decoyes,. as to be the: firſt of this;
race that ſhold clap his wings: againſt his' 50s}
verain Liege Lord. ;23i(50
- The aforeſaid deſtraQtions cortiSiued ſtill;
andiincreaſed more-and morein that gene.
ral conyolarion of. Brrds ; therfore the: Tur-
tle wold ſtay ther no longer, ther was fo
much gall amongſt them :- the *Pelecan. flew
away, he ſaw Picty {o vilified ; the Dove was
weary of their company, ſhe found no fam-
plicity and plain dealing - amongſt them:
And the Kings Fiſher, the Balcyow (the Em:
Aronde'le, . blem of Peace) de forſook
them, he found ſo mnch j jarring, diflenitions,
and bandings on all ſides; rhe Swallow alſo,
who had ſo ancient and honourable a'rank
amongſt them, got into: another aire; he
fore-ſaw the weather was like to ſo.be-fout:
Her Majeſty. And laſtly, Philomela, the Queen| ;
of Yolatills, who was partner of the Eagle's
neſt, abandoned them quite, and pur a iSea
*rwixt her and them z nay, the Fagle him-
felt withdrew his royal preſence fron them;
ſo the Decoyes aforeſaid carryed all before
them, and comported themſelves by/their
pa Ys in that bight, as jf like the Zepmine,
every one had a Crown on his head; they fo
inchanted
Code)
her ff inchanted in a manner, all the common ſore
of Oppidan, rurall, and: Sea-birds, and infy-
ſed-lucha' credulity i inro them, that” they
believed them to have an inerring ſpirit, and
what came from them, was as tru-as the
Pentateuch : Moreover, i it was ſhrewdly ſy-
ſpeed, thar'ther was a pernicious plot a-
mongft them:to let in the Stork, whois ne-
ver ſeen to ſtay long i in =y Monarchy.
"08
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—_ ——
| M 0 R A L Le 2 "230
6 Mexidradbcr i is that Goden Rule: net:
gr by all Great Counſells ſhold ſquare- their
< deliberations,'and noching can tend more
*to their Honour or diſhonour, #1 point af
£ Wiſdom: Moreover,ina Succeffive here-
* ditary Monarchy, when ſubjects aſſume
*Regall Power, when they bar the Holy
'& Church of herRights;& of that Revyerence
& which is due to her chief Profeſſors, 'it is
-& the moſt compendious' way to bring all
oof things to confufion, and conſequently-to
420 incyirable ruine, or ſom faral Changes
| And this I hold to be the chiefeſt Morall
af rhys epmoges of Birds,
*Avda-
(186)
| rs © "Ardoaoyicy Sy I
[The gathering rogerher, or Parlemen
of FLowEers _
WH T Pona time, The Flowers aſſembled,
RR. þ and mer in one generall.Counſel),
SD by che authority and ſummons of
the Soveraign Roſe, their undoubted naturall
King, who had taken the Zily for his royall
ſpouſe. The dew of heaven fell plentitully
upon this happy conjunRion, which made
them to Bowrgeor, to propagate and ' proſper
exceedingly, in ſo much, that the ſweet
fragrant odor which they did caſt, diffuſed
it ſelf over all the earth, To-this meeting
came the Yioler,Gilliflower, the Roſemary, the
Tulyp, Lavender and Thyme,the Cingquefoyle
x. zi. (though of a forren growth)had an
honourable rank amongſt them,and as ſome
obſerved,got too much credit with the royal
Roſe. The Flowers ofthe field were admit-
ted alſo to this great-Counſell: the Couſlip i»
the Honyſukleand Daiſie had their Delegates
there preſent, to conſult of a Reformation
of certain abuſes which had taken rooting in
the Common wealth of Flowers, and. being
a
TEE VERY. 6-3. Dc
Y
ent
S=IQ
. (187)
Pall oder the Roſe, they had priviledge to
ſpeak all chings with freedome ; Complaints
were made that much Cockle and Darxel,
with other noxious Herbs and 7ares were
crept in amongſt them, that the Poppie did
pullulat too much, with divers other. grie-
yances: The ſacceſle of this Senat,this great
B74 or Poſte of living Flowers, was like to
prove very- proſperous, but that the herb
Briony, Wormwood, Wolfbane, Rue, and Me-
lampod (the emblems of Sedition, Malice,
Feare, Ambition and Tealouſie) thruſt in a-
mongſt rhem, and much diſtempered their
proceedings : Theſe brought in with chemthe
Bur, which exceedingly retarded and «wo
ncangled all bufinefles ; and ic was thought
that the: Thiſtle was too medling amongſt
them, which made matters grow to thar a-
crimony and confuſion, as if the herb Mor-
ſus diaboli had got in amongſt them, '' A-
mongſt many other good-morrows,' they
propoundedto the Roſe, that he (ſhould pare
with his prices, and tranſmir his ſtrength
thir way to be diſpoſed of by them ; the
Royall Rofe liked not this bold” requeſt
of theirs,” though conched in very ſmooth
language, bur anſwered,TI have hicherco con-
deſcended to every thing you haye - pro-
4 | poun-
£
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| | _...... __
pounded, much more then, any of my Pre
deceſfors ever did ; buc ronching theſe priz-
#les, which God and nature hath given mee;
and are inherent in me and' my ftock from
the beginning, though they be bur excreſſen-
cies,yet you know chey fortifie and arm me,
Armat Spina Roſam, And by them I prote
you and your rights from violence, and what
prote#tion 1 pray can there be without ſtrength ?
therefore I will by no means part with them
to enfeeble my regall Power, but will retain
them ſtill, and bequearh them to my Poſte-
rity, which I would be loth to becray.in this
poine ; nor doe I much value what that filly
znfected Animall, the Kine of Bees rells me
ſometimes, when humming up and” downe
my leaves, he would buzze this fond belief
to me, how it added'much'to his Majeſtic,
that nature gives him no ftize, as all 'ofber
Bees have, becauſe he ſhould rely alcogether
upon the love and loyalty of his ſubjeas.
No; 1 willcake warning by the Zaglc,- the
King-of Y olatills, and by che Lyon, King of
Plut, Dwuadrupedals , who(as: the Prince of
Moraliſts reports) when by fayre infinuations
the one had parted with his t«//o25, the other
with his :eeh and ozgles,wherein their might,
and- conſequently -threir- Majeſty confiſted,
$3472 8 grew
,
« 129)
grew afterwards contemptible to all crear
cutes, and quite loft that, natural allegeance
and awe which was duc unto the one from, all
birds, and to the other, from all beaſts of field
py
and forreſt. |
bbs 7 * Þ © » wn
« Eyery naturall borne Monarch, hath
& an inberent inalienable ſtrengeh in himſels,
« which.js the common M1714 of his King-
« dome zfor,though the peoples love (which
« ofcentimes is got by an Apple, and loſt by
«a Peare) be 2. good: Cittadell, yet there
© muſt be a concurrence of ſome viſible ſet-
« ted force beſides, which no -earchly power
&© may. diſpoſe of without his royall com-
«* mands_: and for; him to- tranſmit this
* ſtrength roany other, is the only way to
| © render him inglorious and deſpicable,both
© 2 home and abroad ; And chus you have
«the ſpirit of cheſe Flowers, and Morall of
* the Fable. noi
n .
}
'
©, The Aſemblyof Architects, |
T flere was an ancient goodly Palace 2
© compoſed of divers pieces, and partiti-
ond jato ſundry Chombgrs, Halls and c_
toy, "IG 's pate whis
(190)
which were ſupported by mixt Pil/ars, part:
ly Corinthian, pardy Tonique, bur principal
ly by the Dorique the King of Columnes, 1
having the -firmeſt Pedeftall : Some rooke
exceptions, and alledged, that ſome of the
ſaid Courts were too bigh;\ and ſome of the
Chambers in this StrudFwure were too wide,
The Lord of this Palace call'd together rhe
beſt Maſons and A4rchitedFr, to adviſe with
him (not without him) for mending of thoſe
faults, the better contrivaiice of the 'toomes,
and to reduce the B#ilding to a juſt'propor?
tion. They ſolemnly mer, and falling to
conſultation hereof , they found that the
Chamber which was ſpansled with Srars, and
where his privat Counſell of Srate 'did- uſe
co fir, were too wide ; they rtionghe that the
{onurt erected on the North-ſode, ad that
learned Court where Eccleſiaftical! "tmitters
were ſcanned, was 'too high ; Theſ&;w
that peculiar Court which was ereted Tor the”
ſupport of Honour, they went abour iu lieu
of reQifying, to r74inar, and raxe to the very:
ground ; and {ome of theſe Maſons (for in-
deed they were rather Msſozs then. true.
Archites)were ſo precife and over critical,
that they ſeem'd to find fault with'che po-
ſition of the Chappel{ thar belong'd es
DN TS
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OE (191)
this Palace, becauſe, forſooth, it. ſtood Eaſt
and weft, which fituation, only in regard it
was ancient, they held ro be a ſuperſtitious
poſture ; They ſeem'd to repine at the de-
cencie, riches and ornament of it, with divers
other frivolous exceptions, The Lord: of
the Palace ſaid lictle to. that, but touching
the errors and diſproportians in the foreſaid
Courts and Chambers of publick juſtice; be was
very willing they. ſhould be amended, and
reduced to a true dimenſion and fymmetrie x
and that all other roomes ſhould be ſearched:
and ſwept clezane : but he would be loth to
ſee thoſe arent pieces quite demoliſh'd,
for that would hazard the-fall of the maine
Fabrique,:his princely. hereditary. pacrimony
(deſcended upon him from fo many: wife Qe-
conomiſts and xoyall Progenitors) in-regard of
the juniFure and corntignation thoſe parrs bad
| with che whole frame: To mend:athing by
demoliſhing ir, is as; curing a. fick-body by
knocking him in the head : he told chem ir
was eafter far to pull down, then; build up 3
one may batter to: pieces-in one hanre,. char
which cannot be. builtin an age: That eyer-
laſting/alajne,who burnt the EphiſearTem-
ple, deſtroyed, as it were in a trice, what
dd oe ade
WI
(192)
wiſh'd them: : further to be very - cautious
tow they medled with th the Aogulars and
Baſis of that Royal'SeruRure ; for lo they
might prove as wiſe as thoſe Archiredy,
who took out ſom of the foundation ftones, to rt-
pair the roof. Laſtly,he'rold chem,thar if they
intended;to pull. down- any part of his own
ſtanding Palace, they -ſhold be well advifed
| before handiof the tathion wherof. that new
Fabrick ſhold be, -which they: paroled to
Fear UP: 10 oe: room:ot the old.
« oy F
Mt _— Y hn umm. 44 , a
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ow
)
*/quence inall chings, ſpecially in. a ferled
<«well--remper'd .anciegt States therfote
« xher ſhold be great heed taken, before a-
ny ancieatCourt of Jadicature,ereed as 2
C « Pillar to ſupport Juſtice by rhe wiſdoi vf |
< our Progenitors, be quite put down ; for
*<it.may ſhake the whole Fram: of Govern-
< ment, and introduce a change z. and' chan-
<* ges-in Government are commonly fatall,
«for ſeldom comes aibetter. And this]
© hold-toibe the aim of this Apologue. ,
« Tnnoyations ate of ..dangetous conſe-
&V-QueS<)@We'T'S = A. ©
” et OV 9» IH ks 0 -
(193 ,
he ie Tnſureftion of the Wands:
TT fortuned, that the Winds banded a-
gainſt Eolus * And Boreas (the North-
wind) began to bluſter firſt, arid wold- blow
' ther he liſted, he grew ſo boiſterous, thar he
1scall'd Scop4 wiarnm, the high-way Bee-
ſom, he ſeem'd to ſweep all before him
Sotithward, infomuch, thiat uniting all his
ſtrength inco one body, he rriade towards
Eolws in a hoſtile armed mianner, and ſo ob-
tained of him whit he deſired, Afrer his
example (and an odde example it was) the
Weſt-wind;his fellow ſgbje& roſe E
up,alledging,that though he blew +#,;* Sect
from che lefr-fide of Heaven, yet
he deſerved to be as much favoured 2s Zg-
reas, in regard he drove a far ticher trade;
2nd blew upor a more fertile Countrey,;
Vhich brought ia miuch more benefic ro the
reſt of Eolus his Dominions; therfore his
would have his liberties alſo aflur'd hint,
which he alledged were altogether as ancient
as the others : This made him puff wich!
ſuch an' infipetuous violerice, that his blaſts
broug hr with them (God wot) divers
thowres of bloud, and whole Cararafts of
O ; edle-
— IEC ——-——— III Ag MII EY"
| 0 (194 )
.Calamities: Now, as it is obſerved inthe
courſe of natutall chings, thar one miſchief
ſeldom -marcheth alone, but uſhers in-ano-
ther, and hath alwaies its concomirants, fo
theſe North and Weſtern guſts, as one waye
-uſech to drive on: another, - made: all the
winds in the compaſle, both co//aterall and
cardinall to riſe up and rebell againſt Zolw,
even under that very Clime; and in; thoſe
"Horizons, where he kept his principall refi-'
dence and royal Court. And this popular
wind (for 'twas no other, take jr all
joyntly in one puff ).did rage with
that vehemency,that it turn'devery wher in-
to fearful lames of fire (ifluing out-of a kind
of 1gns fatuws,which by its repercuſſions, and
furious arietations, did a world-of ; miſchief,
AS if it had bin that incendiary. Prefter wind,
England.
or rather an Haraucane, that Indian-gult, |
which .alwaies brings the Devil along with ir |
as thoſe Savages believe): had: blown here,
For, ſurely God was not in ths wind, Yet fom
were (ſo fimple,to think that this wind pre-
ceeded from divine 2nſþirationss, nay, they
-eame to that height ot prophaneneſs, as to
father it upon the . Holy Ghoſt, though: no-
thing could be more different to his ſweet
motions, nothing ſo diretly oppolit to
0: $3 "i
Culty, PF uh. mf. Ad Ot PAR GAS wat e. wh war
4 —_— —_— Oo |
SN
-fofr gentle breeſes ard event:latto;rsy fot ng
holy conſecrated thing could ſtand before
this Diabolical witid; down went all Croſles
jc met withall ; it. batcer'd down Church
aad Chappel windowes(and l fear the . walls
'and ftgeples will next to wrack.) It was fo
violent; that it overrurn'd-all tone Tables
that ſtood Eaſt-ward ; ic blew away. 2} the
decent Yeſts and Ornaments of the Church;
the Biſhops Micre (an Order contetmporary
wich Chriſtianicy it felt) did quake like an
Affpea keaf before it 5 nay,it ſhrewdly ſhook
the very Imperial Scepter,and Crown which
ſtood of Zaimt his head, fo that he was like
tobecome Ladibrinm Yentorim. 4
But the higheſt Deicy of Heaven; He wh
walketh upon the wings of the wind, and makes
weieht for them, and gathereth them in his fiſt
#hen he pleaſeth, hating ſuch an odious tebel«
lion, rebuked theſe rumultuous winds, he
erſed a conragious aire, to ruſh.is and min-
gle wich chem, and tnfect them wich new d:f-
caſes; b-lides whiſpers of jealoufies, doubts
ind diffidence blew and. buzz'd. nrore and
more amoneſt them, ſo thar chey could not
fruſt one another ; inforruch, that it avade
them-to fall iro confulton amonzft them-
elves, whiet is ctis common tare of all Re-
Oz bel-
(196)
| bellions. So Zelws recovered his Monar- |
cy, and as they ſay, ther. is no wind but || ;
| blows ſom body good; ſo this turn'd much || «
to the advantage 'of Folw, for he grew. ever I «
after more firm and better eſtabliſh d in his Y «
regall power, becauſe he put. a competent ||| «
guard in thoſe Climes whence all theſe || «
boiſtrous winds burſt forth, and ſo ſecur'd | 5
himſelf ever after,that they could not blow |
where they liſted. Ei ?
Popular Inſurreftions being debell .t tun || «
the advantage, and render the Ruling Prince ll ©
more ſecure afterwards, or a broken bone being
well ſet, growes ſtronger oftentimes : And o
you have the Principal Moral of this parable
in brief,
Pos T-SCRI P To
| « Gl, long to receive your opinion of
i cheſe rambling Pieces of tancy,you may;
© peradventure, have more, when the times
*are open: ſurely the wind will not hold fil
þ *in this unlucky hole, for it is roo violent to
| «*<]aſt - It begins (thanks be to God) to fitt
1 6 already, and amongſt thoſe multitudes,
© who expect che change, Iam one that rh |
| *cl o
b,
"Kerh 2rthe Cape of good Hope, though a long
_ *ſoever, though all the winds in the com-
. © paſs ſhold bluſter upon me nay , though
(199).
«time under hatches (in the Flee.) How-
& a Haraucana ſhould rage,l am arm'd and
*reſoly'd to bear the brunt, to welcome the
« Will of Godand poſlefſe my foul with
F: patience,
*<<Tf you defire a further intimation of
things, I refer you to a Diſcourſe of mine
v* call'd The Tru Informer, who will give you
* no vulgar ſatisfaction, Sov 1 4m
Tonrs , 4s at firſt, inalterable.
O F
The T_T. of 7 R 2
A DISCOURS
OF I'HAT
HORRID INSURRECTION
eA N D
eM ASS ACRES
Which happen'd lately
By Mercurius Hibernicus :
"|| Who diſcovers unto the World the
8 Tru Cauſers and Incendiaries therof.
In Vindication
| Of His Majeſty, who is moſt maliciouſly
| Traduc'd to be. Acceſlary therunto
Which is as damnable a Lie as poſſibly
could be hatched in Hell ; which is che
Staple of Lies.
-——C
A Lie ſtands upon one legg, —— |
Truth upon two.
GP ER TNT WY 1 ww TY Gd wn Yi wi end ww ww o pj VOY wg
_ >. -——— —_— .
RI er er gn a ron FEI AIR org —_—
—
_ IIS ea Ine en He ry
+ — —
oy wa a ae
— — —_ 2 __—_—
=
(208)
Mercurius Hibernicus,
His Advertiſement to the well-temper d
NAD
AE Here 1s a mongrell race of |
Tas Mercuries lately ſprung up,
gs but I claim no acquamtance
Þ with them,much leſs any
Kindred. They have commonly but
- one weeks time for their conception
and birth ; and then are they bur like
thoſe Ephemeran creatures, which Pliny
ſpeaks of that are born in che morning,
grow up till noon,and periſh the ſame
night: I hope to be longerliv'd then fo,
becauſe I was longer a getting,ther was
more time and matter went to my
Generation. - .
Theris a Tale how the tru Mercury
indeed, deſcended from Heven once in
a diſguiſe, to ſee how he was eſteem'd
on earth ; ; and entring one day unto a
Pain-
| (202)
Painters-ſhop, he found ther divers
Pictures of Apollo, Jupiter, Mars, with
others z and ſpying his own hanging
ina corner hard-by,he asked whact the
price of that Pourtraic might be 2 The
Painter anſwered,that if he bought a
of the reſt, he wold give him: that ints
the bargain for nothing : Mercury 1ere-
upon ſhaking his white Caducean flung, If ,
out 1n indignation,and few up to Hes 7
ven. Shold Mercury chance to deſcend; þ
now from his ſphear, Ithink he wold. if,
be much more offended to find himſelf i
xrſonated by every.petty imperrinent
Damphlns 3 yet I believe he would: iff x
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eMercarius Hibernicas.
IRQs Here is not any thing ſince theſe
SI, ugly warrs begun, whereof
$i there bath been more adyan-
1 $92 rage made to traduce and ble-
=". miſh His Majeſties actions, or
toalienate.and imbitrer the affeRions of his
people towards Him , to incite them to
armes, and enharden them in che quarrell,
than of the 7r:ſþ affaires 5 whether one caſt
his eyes upon the beginning and procee-
dure of that warre (which ſome by a moſt
monſtrous impudence would patronize up-
on their Majeſties) or. upon the late Ceſſa-
tion, and the tranſport of Ayuxiliaries
ſince from thence. There are ſome that
in broken peeces haye written of all three :
- Il but not in one entire diſcourſe, as this is ,
Jy nor hath any hitherto hit upon thoſe. rea-
ſons and inferences that ſhall be diſplayed
herein.
But he who adventures to judge of af-
faires
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faires of State , ſpecially of traverſes of
warre, as of Pacifications, of Truces, Suf-
penſions of Armes, Parlies, and ſuch like,
muſt well obſerve the quality of the times,
the ſucceſſe and circumſtance of matter;
paſt, the poſtare and preflure- of 'things
preſent (and upon the Place) the induce-
ment or enforcement of cauſes, the gainin?
of time, the neceſlity of preventing greater
mifchiefes (whereunto true policy Prom:
fthens like hath alwaies ati eye) with other
advatitages. The late Ceſſation of Armies
in Treland was an affaire of this nature z a
ttue A of State, and of as high a coniſe-
quence as could be : Which Ceflation is
now become the Common Subjeit of every
mars diſcoarſe, or rather the diſcourſe of
every common Snbjet# all the three” King:
domes over : And nor onely the fubje&
of their difcoutſe, bur of their: cefure alſo 4
nor of their cetiſure onely, bur of their re-
proach and obloquy, For the World is
come now ro that paſſe, tharthe Foor mult
judge the Head, the very Cobler mutt pry
into the Cabinet Counſfels of his Xie; nay
the Diſtaffe is ready ever and anon to atrals
the Scepter ;, Spinſtreſles are become States:
women, andeyery peaſan am
ac
Pans
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ſuch a fond irregular humour reignes gene=
rally of late yeers amongſt the Engliſh Na-
LION:
volume, is, to vindicate His Majeſties moſk
pious intentions in condeſcending to this
late ſuſpenſion of Arms in His Kingdome
of Ireland, and to make it appeare to any
rationall ingenious capacity, (not pre-oc-
cupied. or purblinded with paſſion) that
there was more of honour and neceflity,
more of prudence and piety in the faid
Ceſſation, than there was either in the Pa-
cification or Peace that was made with the
SM. |
. Butto proceed herein the more methodi-
cally, I will lay downe, firſt,
_ The reall and true radicall cauſes of the
late two- yeers Iriſh I»ſurredFion.
Secondly, the courſe His Majefty uſed to
{upprefle ir... E
-. Laſtly, choſe indiſpenſable impulſive
reaſons and ipvincible necefficy which en-
forced His Majeſty to condeſcend ro a Cef-
ſation. _
- Touching the grounds of the faid Inſur-
reftion, we may remember when His Ma-
re ies Hen jeſty
... Now the Deſigne of this ſmall diſcourſe, -
though the Subject require a farre greater
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| ſed upon them, and ſo cald in ſuddenly a-
then) To which end, they put chemſelves
(208)
jeſty out of a pious deſigne (3s His 'lat:
Majeſty alſo had) to ſettle an Uniformitie
of ſerving God in all his three Kingdomes,
ſent our "Lituroie to his Subjes of Scot-
lind , {ome of that. Nation made fach an
advantage hereof, that though ic was a thing
only ' recommended, not commanded or pref-
gaine by a moſt gracious Proclamation ;
accompanied with a generall pardon : Yet
they would not reſt there, but they would
take the opportunity hereby 'to demoliſh
Biſhops, and the whole Hierarchy of the
Church (which was no grievance at all cill
in atuall Armes, and obtained ar laſt -whar
they liſted , which they had nor dared to
have done, had they not been ſure to have '>
as good friends in Exeland as they had in
Scotland (as Leſly himſelf confeſſed to Sir
William Berkley at Newcaſtle) tor ſome of
the chiefeſt Inconformiſts here, had no aa
onely intelligence with them, but had bee Pl
of their Cabitier- counſels in moulding chell =P
Plot : though ſome would caſt this War op #7
on the French Cardinall, to vindicate tht 6
invafion we made upon bis Maſters domini} P.«
ons in the ltle of Rets ; as alſo for ſome at:
vantazl
(209 ) .. |
yantaze che Engliſh uſe co do the Spaniard
ig cxanſ{porting his Treaſure to Dunketk,
with other-offices. Others wold caſt it up-
on che Fefazt, that he ſhold proje&ic-firit,
.to:orce His Mjeſty ro have recourſe to his
| .Roinan Catbolick SabjzRs for aid, that {0
| they might, by ſach Supererogatory ſervice
ingratiate the miclves the more into his ta-
VQUT,
The 7riſh hearing how well their next
)
.Neighbou; S had ſped by way of Arms,it fil-
| ]-d chem fuil of thoughts and apprenenſions
|| 9 fear and jealouſte,thar the Scor wold prove
1 40ore powerful hereby, and conſequently
more able ta do them hurt, and co attempc
waiesto reſtrain them of thar connivency ,
»|| vhich they were allowedin poiat of Relt-
.210n: Tow ther is no Nation upon earti
that the, Iriſh hate in char perteRtion, and
with a greater Antipathy , than the
Scot, or from whom they conceive greater
_ danger: For wheras they have an old pro-
phefie amongſt them, which one ſhall hear
.up and down in every mouth, That the day
will come when the Iriſh ſhall wiep upon
" Eneliſh mens graves : They fear that this
propheſie will be verified and fulfilled in the
cot above any other Nation, BL
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Moreover, the 1riſh entred into confide-
ration, that They alſo bad ſundry grievan-
ces and grounds of complaint, both rouch-
ing their eſtates and conſciences, which they
pretended to be far greater than thoſe of
the Scots, For they fell to think, that if the
Scot was ſuffered to introduce a new Reli-
S10nN, It Was reaſon they ſhold not be fo
pinched in the exerciſe of their o/d, which
they glory never to have altered. And for
temporall matters (wherin the Sco? had no
grievance at all to-ſpeak of) the new plan-
tations which had bin lately afoot, to be
made in Conauzht and other places ; the con-
cealed lands and defective tities which were
daily found out; the new cuſtoms which
were impoſed, and the incapacity they had
to any preferment or Office in Church and
State (with' other things) they conceived
theſe to be grievances of a far greater na-
ture, and that deſerved redrefſle much more
than any the Scot had, To this end, they
{ſent over Commiſſioners to attend this Par-
liament in Enelazd, with certain Propoſiti-
ons, but thoſe Commiſſioners were diſmil-
{ed hence with a ſhort and unſayonry an-
{wer, which bred worſe bloud in the Nati
on than was formerly gathered ;: and =
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wich that leading caſe of che Sco?, may be
{;1d ro be thie firſt incitements that made
them riſe.
Inghe couile of humane actions, we dai-
ly fiad it to be a tru rule, Exempla movenr,
Examples move, and make ſtrong imprefſi-
ons upon the tincy 5 precepts are not ſo
powerful as precedexts. The ſaid example
ot Scotland, wrought wonderfully upon che
;magination of the Iriſh, and filled them (as
' Trouched before) with thoughts of emula-
tion, that They deſerved altogether to
have as good uſage as the Scot, their Coun-
try being far more beneficial, and conſe-
quenly, more importing the Engliſh Nati-
on. But theſe were but confuſed 1mper-
tet notions, which began to receive more
vigour and form after the death of the Earl
of Strafford, who kept them under ſo exact
an obedience, though ſom cenſure him to
have ſcrewed up the ſtrings of the Harp too
high ; inſfomuch thar che taking off of che
Earl of Srraffprds head, may be ſaid to be the
ſecond incitement to the heads of chat inſur-
tection to ſtir.
Adde hereunto, that the Iriſh under-
ſtanding with what acrimony che Roman
Catholicks in Erzland were proceeded a-
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- Bainſt ſince the {itting of our Parliament,
and what further delignes were afoot. a-
Sainſt them, and not onely againſt them ,
but for ranve:fing ihe Proteflani Rgligion
lt ſelf, 2s it is now practiſed (which ſom
ſhallow-brai 1nd Scbiimaricks do. rhrow into
the {ime ſcales with P-pery.)They chought
it was high time for them to. forecaſt whar
(ho!d become of ' Them, anc how they thold
Le nimnuled in point of conſcience, when a
new Deputy of the Parliaments election
(approbatiow at leaſt) thold come over,
"'Therfore they fell ro conſule of fom means
of timely prevention - And this was another
morive (and it was a ſhrewd one) which
Puſhr on the 7rzſh to take up Arms.
Laſtly, that Army of 80900. men, which
the Earl of Strafford had raiſed ro be tran-
{ported to England tor ſuppreſiing the Scor,
being by the advice of cur Parliament here,
disbanded the Country was annoyed by
{om 5! £chakk ſtragling Souldiers, as not one.
in eventy of the Irith, will from the ſword
to the ſpade, or fromthe Pike to the ploug
a24in, Therfore the two Marqueſſes chat
were Ambailadors here then for Spaize,
having propounded to have ſom numbers
of thoſe ciSbanded forces, for the arts of
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their Maſter ; His Majeſty by as mature
advice of his privy Couniel), to occur the
miſchiefs that migbe ariſe to his K: n2dom of
Ircland by thote looſe catheerd Souldiers,,
yielded ro the Ambaſſadors motion, who
ſent notice hereof to Spain accordingly, and
ſo provided ſhipping for their crzniport, an
impreſſed money to advance the buſine(s ;
bur a5 they were in the heat of that wer,
His Majeſty being then in Scotland, ther w:s
a ſudden ſtop made of thole promiſed
troops, who had depended long upon the
Spaniards ſervice, as the Spaniare h. 3 done
on theirs. And this was the laſt, chouga noe:
the leaſt facal cauſe of that horrid infurrei-
on: All which particulats well confidered,
it had binno hard matter to have bin a P: 0-
pher, and ſtanding upon the top of Hoty-
Head, to have foreſeen thoſe black clouds
engendering in the Iriſh aire, which brole
our afterwards i into ſuch teartul tempeſts a
bloud. *
Out of theſe premiſes, ic is eaſte for any
common underſtanding, not. tranſported
with paſſion and private intereſt, to draw ,
this concluſton. That They who comp yed
with the Scot in-þis inſurrection ; They who
diſmiſſed the Iriſh CaniRoners with ſuch
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a ſhort unpolitick anſwer, They who took off
the Eul of Srraffords head, and delayed: af-
terwards the ditparching of the Earl of Zez-
cefter, They who hindered thoſe disbinded
croops in Jreland to go for Spain, may be
zaſtly ſaid to have bin rhe tru cauſes of the
late inſarreRion of rhe Iriſh;and conſequent-
ly , it is eafie to know upon the account -of
whoſe ſouls muſt be laid che bloud of thoſe
bundred and odde thouſands poor Chriſti-
ans, who perithed in thac war ; ſo that bad
it bin poſſible to have brought over their
bodies unputrified to Ezgland, and to have
caſt chem at the doores, and in the preſence
of ſom men [I believe they wold have guſhed
out afreſh into bloud,for diſcovery of the try
murtherers. _
The grounds of this inſurretion being
| thus diſcovered, let us examine what means
His Majeſty uſed for the ſuppreſſion ot it,
He made his addreſſes preſently to his great
Counſel,the Engliſh Parliament then afſem-
bled, which Queen Z/izabeth and her proge-
nitors did ſeldom uſe to do, but only. to
their Pcivy Counſel in ſuch caſes, who had
che diſcuising and tranſaRing of al} foreign
affaires; for in mannaging matters of State,
ſpecially choſe of war, which muſt be -
LD | WE
| (215) "=
ryed with all the ſecrecy that may be, Trop
grand nombre, eſt encombre, as the French-
_ .manſaith, roo great a number of Counfel-
lours may be an incumber, and expoſe their
reſuits and reſolutions to diſcovety and. 0-
ther diſadvantages, wheras in military pro-
ceedings the work {hold be atoot before the
Counſels be blazed abroad, Well, His
Majeſty tranſmitted this 'bulineſs co the
Parliament of Ezelana, who totally under-
raking ir, and wedding as it were the quar-
Tel (as I remember they did that of the Pa-
litinate a little before by ſolemn vote ; the
like was done by the Parliament of Scotland
alſo, by a publick jovnt Declaration, which
in regard ther came nothing of it, tended Jit-
tle to the honour of either Nation abroad)
His Majeſty gaye his royal aſſent to any
Propoſitions or acts for raiſing of men, mo-
ney and arms to perform the work, But
hereby no man is ſo ſimple as to think His
Majeſty ſhold abſolutely give over his own
perſonal care and protection of that his
Kingdom, ir being a Rule, That a King car
no more deſert the proteition of his own people,
then they their ſubjection to him, In all his
Declazations ther was nothing that he en-
dear'dand inculcated more often, and wirh
P4 " greater ©
(216)
greater aggravation and earneſtneſs unto
chem, then the care of his poor Subj -d&s: ;
cheir fellow-Proteſtants in ireland: Nay,he
reſented their condition ſo far, and took rhe
buſineſs ſo to heart, char he offered to paſle
over in perſon for their relief : And'who'can
deny but this was a magnanimous and King-
like reſolution? Which the Scots by publick
at ofCounſel,did highly approve ot,and de-
clared it to be an argument of care and cou-
rage in his Majeſty, And queſtionleſs it had
done infinite good in the opinion of them
that have felr the pulſe of che I:iſh people,
who are daily ore- heard to grean, how they
have bin any cime theſe 400.yeirs under the
Engliſh Crown,and yet never ſaw bur two of
their Kings all che while upon 7riſh ground,
though ther be bur a ſalt dich of a few hours
ſail to paſs over. And much more welcom
ſhold His Majeſty, now regaant, be amongſt
' them,who by general iradition, They confeſs
_ hold to come on the paternal fide from
Fergw(by legal and lineal deſcent) who was
an Iriſh Prince, and after King of Scotland,
wheras the ticle of all our former Kings _ 7
Queens was ſtumbled ar alwajes by he vul-
gar. His Majeſty fiading that this royall -
proffer « of Engaging 3 his 0 own perſon, was re-
j<ed
(217) |
ſc&ed with a kind of ſcorn,coucht in ſmooth.
anzuzge, though the main buſinefſe con-
zned himſelf neareſt, and indeed ſolely
imfſelf, that Kingdom being his own he-
editary Right. Underſtanding alſo, whac
ſe ſiniſter uſe ther was made of this inf ur-
cRion by ſom trayrerous malevolent per-
08s, who, to caſt aſperfions upon His Ma-
-fty,and co poyſon the hearts of his people,
belides publick infamous reports, counter-
feited certain Commiſſions in His Majeſties
nme to authorize the bulinefle, as if he
vere Privy co it, though I dare pawn my ſoul
FHis (or Her) Majeſty knew no more of ir
then the great Mogor Cid, Finding alſo that
be Commiſſioners imployed hence for the
managing and compoſing matters in thar
Kingdom, though nominared by the Parlia-
ent, and by cheir recommendation autho-
ized by His Majeſty, did not obſerve their
inftru&tions, and yet were conniv'd at. Un-
terſtanding alſo, what an inhumane deſign
her was between chem and the Scor; in lieu
ft ſupprefſing an inſurreCtion ro eradicat and
\Pkringuiſh a. whole nation to make booty
tt their lands (which hopes the London Ad-
\Fcnturers did hugge,and began to divide the
Bears-skin before he Was caken ,as His Ma-
jelty
ll
_
Givers intention. Hearing alſo that choſe
| (218)
jeſty told them)an attempt the Spaniard nor
any other Chriſtian State ever incended a"
oainſt the worſt of Sayages; The conceit|©
wherof intuſed ſuch a delperate. courage, [*
eagerneſs and valour into the 1r/h, that it JV
made them turn zeceſ{ty into a kind of wverts, | ©
Moreover, His Majeſty taking notice tot B*
thoſe royal Subſidies, with other vaſt con- h
tributions wherunto he had given way, with ©
the ſums of particular Adventurers(amongſt
whom ſom Aliens ( Hoellanders) were taken
in, beſides the Scot to ſhare the Country)
were miſapplyed, being viſtbly imployed,ra-
ther to feed an Engliſh Rebellion, chen to
ſuppreſs an 1riſh: Nay , underſtanding that iſ 5
thoſe charitable colletions which ' were */
made for the reliefe of thoſe diſtreſſed Pro-fj ©
reſtants, who being ſtripped of all their live-
lihood in 7re/and, were forced to fly over to
England, were converted to other uſes, and
che Charicy not diſpenſed according to theſſ| ?*
5000. men which had been levyed and aſ-
ſigned to goe under the Lord whartor, the
Lord of Kerry, Sir Faithfull Forteſcue and 0-
thers were diverted from going to the well
of Ireland, and imployed to make up the
Earl of Zſex Army : And having ne
p
( 219)
ides that the Earl of Warwicke had: ſtayd
certaine ſhips going thither with ſupplies,
and that there was an attempt to ſend for o-
ver to England (ome of thoſe Scottiſh For-
ces which were in Vifter, withour his privi-
ty. Laſtly, His Majeſty finding 5/mſe/fun-
fitted, and indeed diſabled to reach thole his
diſtreſſed Subjects, his owne royal armie all
his navall ſtrength, revenues and magazines
being out of his hands ; and having as hard
agame to play ſtill with the Scot, and as per-
nicions a fire to quench in Exzlazd, as any of
his Progenitors ever had: Receiving intelli-
gence alſo daily from his Proteſtant "Nobili-
ty and Gentry thence, in what a defperare
cale the whole Kingdome ſtood, together
with the report of the Committee thac ar-
tended His Majeſty from them expreſly for
that ſervice, who amongſt other Ceplorzble
paſſages in their petition, repreſented, That
all means by which comfort and life ſhould be
conveyed unts that gaſping Kingdome, ſeercd
to ve totally obſlrutted, and that unleſſe 2 mely
reliefe afforded, His loyal Subj: &s there.
muſt yeeld their fortunes for a prey, '''5 lives.
fer a ſacrifice, and their Keligion for 4 ſcorne to
the mercileſfe Rebels.
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190 ing
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(220) |
taking into his Princely thoughts thoſe wal?!
full complainrs and cryes of his poore Sub-
ze&s, condeſcended ar laſt to appoint ſome
perſons' of honour to heare whar'the Irith
could (ay for them(elyes, as they had often
petitioned ; and God forbid bur the King of
Ireland ſhould receive his Subjects petitions,
as well as the King of Scotland. Bur His
Majeſty being unſatisfied wich what they
propounded then, the Lord Marqueſs of
Ormond marched with conſiderable Forces
- againſt them, and rhough he came off with
honour, yer-no reliefe at all comming thi-
ther for many moneths after from the Par-
liamear here, who had undercaken the bu-
fineſſe, and had received all the ſummes
and ſubſidies, with other unknown contri-
butions to that end, matters grew daily
worſe and worſe. To ſum up all, His
Majeſty receiving expreſs and poſitive ad-
vice from his Lord Jaſtices and Counſell of
State-ther, that the whole Kingdom was
upon point of utter perdition, which was co-
intimated the ſame time to the Parliament
here,by a ſpecial letter ro the Speaker , I ſay
His Mijeſty finding thar he had neither pow-
er of himſeli,ic being tranſmirted to others ;
and that thoſe Truſtees did miſapply thar
Powe!
(221)
power and truſt he had inveſted in them (for
the time) to make good their undertaking
tor preſervation of that his fruittull King-
dome ; being impelled by all theſe forcible
reaſons, HisMijeſty ſent a commiſhon to the
Lord Marqueſle of Ormond his Lievtenant
Generail (a moſt known fincere Proteſtant)
to hearken ro a 2reaty according to their pe-
tition; and if any thing was :miſle in rhar
treaty 1 poynt of honour (as it ſhall appeare
by comparing it with others, there was
none) we know whom to thank, For our
of theſe premiſes al{o, doth reſult this ſecond
concluſion, That they who m:7[applied thoſe
moneys, and miſ-imployed thoſe men which
were levyed with His Majeſtics royall affent
for the reduction of 1rcland: They who ſet a-
foot that moſt ſanguinary deſign of extir-
pating, art leaſt of exſlaviag a whole ancient
Nation, who were planted there by the hand
of Providence from the begining: They
who hindred His Majeſties 7an5fretation
thither- to take cognizance of his own affairs,
and expoſe the countenance of his own roy-
all pexſon for compoſing of things : They,
They may be ſaid to be the true cautes of
that unavoydable neceflity 'and as the hea-
thenPoerfings,TheGods,themſelvs cannot reſpft
Neceſvit 1)
)
Neceſſity) which enforced His Majeſty tf q
capitulat with the Irith, and aſſent co a Ceſc;
{ation. |
Ic was the ſayin? of one of the brave o
Roman Emperours, and it was ofren uſed by} p
Henry the Great of France, Her Majeſtis | 0
Father, That he had rather ſave the life of one v
bojall Subject then kifl a hundred Enemies | +;
Ic may well be thought chat one of rhe pre-J| C
valentft inducements that moved His Maje+{ n:
ty (beſides thoſe formerly mentioned) toſſ 0
condeſcend to this IriſhCeffation, was a lenſeſſ} h
he had of the effuſion of his own poor Sub c:
Jets blood, the hazard of the utter extirpa-ſſ b
tion of the Proteſtants there, and -a torallſ tt
_ Irrecoverable loſle of that Kingdome, as was hi
advertiſed both in the peticion of the Prote-
ſtints themſelves, the relation of che Com-l $
mittee imployd thither to thar purpoſe, andy p:
the exprefle letters of the Lords Juſtices andſſ te
Counſell there. of
"To prove now, that this Ceſſation of arms} th
in Treland was more honourable and taller off 1;
Piety, Prudence and Neceflity, then either
the Pacification or Peace with the Scor. If m
hope , theſe few enſuing arguments un
{above divers others which cannot be up
inſerted here, in regard of the- force = rec
( 223)
{| ded brevity of this Diſcourſe) will ſerve the
curne.
1, 1a primis, When the Pacification was
made with Scotland His Majeſty was there
perſonally preſent,attended on by the floure
of His Engliſh Nobility, Gentry and Ser-
yvanrs, and the enemy was hard by ready to
| face Him. Ar the concluding of the Iriſh
Ceflarion, His Majeſty was not there perſo-
Þ nally preſent, bur it was agirared and agreed
on by his Cemmrſſiover, and it hath been
heid alwates leſs diſhonourable for a King to
capitulare in this kind with his own Subjects
by his Deputy, then in his own perſon, for
the turther off he is, the leſle reflets upon
him.
2. Upon the Pactfication and Peace with
Scoiland, there was an Amneſtia, a generall
pardon, and an abolirion of all by-paſſed of-
tences publiſhed, there were honours and
offices conferred upon the chiefeſt ſticklers in
the War. Ar the Ceſlation in 7reland there
was no {uch thing.
3. When the Pacification and Peace was
made with the Scots, there was mony given
unto Them, as It iS too well knowne. Burt
upon the ſetling of this Ceſſation, the Iriſh
received none but gave His Majeſty a con-
{iderable
fiderable famme as an argument”-of their
ſubmiſſion and gratitude, beſides the.nain-
rainance of ſome of his Garriſons tt the in-
. terim $ and ſo much partly in POme's
honour.
4. Act the concluding of the Pacifiratin
and Peace with'Scotland, there was a vigorous,
freſh, unfoiled Englith "Army a foor, andin
perfect equipage; there wanted neither Am-
municion, Armes, Money, Cloarhs, Viuils
_ or any ching that 'mighr pur heart inco the
Souldier and elevar his ſpirits. "Bur the
Proteſtant Army in 1reland hid not any of
all theſe in any competent proportion, bur
were ready to periſh, chough there had been
no other enemy then hunger and cold : And
rhis implies a farre greater neceſſity for the
{aid Ceſlation. : Pe
5, In 7Treland there was imminent danger
of an inſftanc lofle of the whole Kingdome,
and confequently,the utter ſubverſion of the
Proteſtant Religion there, as was certified
both to King and Parliament by ſundry let-
ters and petitions which ſtand upon record :
There was no ſuch danger in the affairs
Scotland, either in reſpe& of Religion of
Kingdome - therefore there was mote
piery ſhown in preſerving the one , and
pru-
_
-
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F
ae wo Pow: oa. wa:
Majeſty then; this.
. | ; 225 | FN TIO
prudence in pteſerving the other in Ireland;
by plucking both(as it were) out of the
very-jawes of deſtruction by the ſaid Ceila-
tion. WE |
We know that i» the Medley of mundane
ca[uaities, of two evils, the leaſt is to be choſen,
and a ſmall inconvenience _is to be born
'wichall, co prevent a greater.
. If onemakereſearch into the French Sto-
ry, he will find, that many kinds of Pacifica-
tions and Suſpenſions of Armes were cove-
nanted 'twixt that King ang ſom of his
SubjeRs, trenching far more upon regall
dioniry thea this in irelavd. The Spaniard
' wasforced to declare the Hollanders Free
ſlates, before they could be brought to treat
of a truce : And now the Catalazs (crue him
| up almoſt to as high conditions, But what
need I rove abroad fo far £ It is well known.
nor is. it out of the m2mory of man (in -_
Queen Zlizabeths raign) that in Treland it
Celf ther have bin Ceflations, all circum-
ſtances well weighed, more prejuciciall to
But that which I hear murmured- at moſt
35 the effe& of this Ceſſation,is the tranſport
of ſom of thoſe Souldiers to England tor re-
cruting His Majeſties Armies, notwittiſtand-
1 it's
oaks (226) ="
ing that the greateſt number of them be per-
fe and rigid Proteſtants, and were thoſe
whom our Parliament it ſelf imployed a-
oainſt the Iriſh. But put caſe, they were all
Papiſts, muſt His Majeſty therfore be held a
Favourer of Popery ? The late King of
France might have bin ſaid as well ro have
bin a Favourer of Hugom0its,becaule in all his
wars he imployed Them moſt of any in:
places of greateſt truſt againſt the Houſe of
Aruſtria; wheras all the Warld knows, | that
he perfe&ly hated them in the generall, and;
one of rhe reaches of policy he had, was to'
ſpend and waſte them in the wars. Was it
ever known but a Soveraign Prince might!
uſe the bodies and ſtrength of his ewn natu-;.
_ rall-borna Subje&s, and Liege men. for his,
own defence 2 When His perſon hath been:
ſought and aimed at in open field by ſmall;
and great ſhot , and all other Engines of- ſc
hoſtility and violence : Whea he is in danger.
ro be ſurprized or befieg'd in that place wher
he keeps his Court : When all che flowers.
of his Crown {his royal prerogatives which
are deſcended upon him trom ſo many ſuc--
ceſſive progenitors) are like to be plucked :
off and trampled under foor.: When ther, is el
a viſible plot to alter and overturn that Re- ,
Iigion;\ i
(
NE I 0) NE
tivion he was born, baprized, and bred 1n*
When he is in danver to be forced co in-
| | fringe thar ſolemn Sacramental Oach he
| | cook athis Coronation to maintain tie ſaid
| | Religion, with the Rights and Rires of the
}
|
holy Anglican Church, which ſom brain-fick
Schiſmaricks wold transform toa Kir# and
| || ber Diſcipline, to ſom chimerical form of
- | government they know not what. Frances
the firſt and other Chriſtian Princes, made
bſe of the T#rk upon lefle occaſions ; and. if
one ray make uſe of a Horſe, or any ornet
bruit animal, or any inanimat Engine or In-
; ſtrument for his own defence againſt man,
much more nay man be uſed againſt man,
much more may one rational Creature be
;Nuſed againſt another chough for deſtructive
-Rcnds ina good cauſe, ſpecially when they are
ommanded by a Soveraign head, which is
The main thing thar goes co juſtifie a war;
Now touching the Roman Carholicks, whe-
her Exzliſh, velſh, Iriſh, or Scottiſh, which
epaire to his -Majeſties Armies either for
ervice or ſecurity. He looks tiot upon them.
Papiſts, but as his Subjes,not upon their
{cligion, bur their allegiance, and in that
Mialicy he entertains them: Nor can the Pa»
iſt be denyed thie Character of a good Sub- .
E. Q 2 Jeer,
(228 ) |
je, all the while he conforms, himſelf to
the Lawes in generall, and to thoſe layes
alſo that are particularly enacted againſt him,
and ſo keeps himſelf wichin the bounds of
his civil obedience : As long as he con-
tinues ſo, he may challenge proteRion from
his Prince by way of right, and if his Prince
by ſom accident be notin caſe to protect
him, he is to give him leave to defend him-
(elf the beſt he can, for che law of nature al- || "
lowes every one to defend himſelf, and ther
is no poſitive law of man can annul the lay a
of nature. Now if the Subjef may thus |
claim proteRion from his Prixce, it follow || P
eth, the Prince by way of reciprocation may
require aſſiſtance, ſervice and ſupplies from
the $u4jec# upon all publick occaſions, as to
ſuppreſs ac this time a new race of Recuſarts,
which haye done more hart then ever the old
did, and arelike to prove more dangerous
to his Crown and regal Authority then any
foreign enemy. | |
But whoſoever will truly obſerve the ge-
nius, and trace the aCtions of this fatal Ei
Rion which now ſwayes wich chat boundleſs,
exorbitant,arbicrary andAntinomian powe!,
will find, that ic is one of their prime pieces oi
policy, to traduce and falſifie any thing thay!
l) bp
+
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( 229)
| is not conducible to their own ends+ Yet
what comes from them muſt be ſo magiſte-
rial, it maſt be ſo unqueſtionably and. incon-
trow/ably tra & lawful,char it muſt be belie-
ved by an implicite faith, as proceeding from
an in-erring Oracle (as if theſe Zealots were
above the common condition of mankind,
to whom errour is as hereditary as any orher
infirmity) though the thing ic ſelf encroach
never ſo groſly both upon the common li- -
berty, the ſtates and fouls of men. Bur if any
thing bear the ſtamp of royal Authority, be
itnever ſo juſt and tending to peace and the
publick good, yea, though it be indifferent
toeither fide, it is preſently counterman-
ded, cryed down,and ſtifled ; or it is calum-
niated and afperſed with obloquies, falſe
olofles and. miſpriſtons ; and this is become
now the common Theam wherwich their
Pulpirs ring. -
Which makes me think, that theſe upſtart
politicians kave not long to reign; for, as the
common Provetb ſaith, Fraud and Froſt end
foul. and are ſhort-lived, ſo that policy, thoſe
Counſels which are grounded upon ſcandals,
I reproaches and lies, will quickly mou!der and
of totter away,and bring their Authors at laſt
79 deſerved infamy and ſhame, and make
Q 3 them
ps —— — — — — —
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(230)
them find a Tomb in their own ruines. Adde
herennto as further badges of their nature,
that black irreconcilable malice and deſire
of revenge which ragech in them, the averſ-
neſs they have to any ſweetneſs of Confor-
mity and Union, the violent thirſt they have
of bloud,which makes me think on that 4i-
ftique of Prudentius, who ſeemed ro be a
Prophet as well as Poet (a tru Yates) in dif-
playing the humors of theſe fiery Dogma-
riſts, this all-confounding faction which now
hack the vogue, to the puniſhment, T will not
fay yet, the perdition of this poor Ifland.
S;c mores produat ammiun,T mihi credite, junttn
Semper cum falſs eſt dogmate Ccedis amor,
| Thu m Engliſh,
Manners betray the mind, and credit me,
Ther's alwayes thi:{t of bloud with Herefie.
THE SW A Y
| OF THE
» vw n R D:
A DISCOURS
OF THR |
MI LIT TA Traind-Bands,
OR
COMMON $S 0 LDIERY
OF THE :
PROVING,
[That the Power and Com-
mand therof in chief belongs to
the Ruling Prince, and to no other.
—
Sine Gladio nulle Defenſi.
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The Authors Apology.
mf 1s confets'd that the fub-
OY Ne ject of this Diſcours
S Fa were mote proper to One
ERS of the lowg-Robe, which I
am not, I am no Lawyer otherwiſe
then what nature hath made me, ſo e-
very man, as he is born the child of
Reaſon, is aLawyer, and a Logitianalſo
who was the firſt kind of Lawyer :
This diſcourſive faculty of Reaſon
comes with us into the world accom-
panied with certain general notions
and principles to diſtinguiſh Right
from Wrong, and Falſhood from
Truth : Buttouching this following
Dijcourſe, becauſe it relates ſomthing to
LaW.the Author weld not haye adven-
= -. - tured
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cok 3. IRE CELL REST io a ef Ss pI NG a3 \
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Ct Er IEC TR 7 OE nat Ae I Rants 5
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tured torhave expoſed it co. the worlg G
if, beſides thoſe common innate a; (2
ons of Reaſon, and ſome private Not |
of his own, he had notinform'dand|
aſcertain'd his judgmentby conference P
with ſom profeſſed Lawyers, and |
thoſe the Eminenteſt..in the Land,
couching the eruth of whar it Treats
of; therfore he dares humbly aver that
iecontains nothing but what is conſo-
nant to the fundamentall and fixed
Lawcs of this Kingdom, EX bt [
ff
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% And command i in chief of
t [The MILITIA, Cc.
SIZE OY ERN, E NT 1 anOr-
RY ES dinance of God for Mans
WM (MN 200d; the kinds of Government
lf are. ordinances of men for
=Y Gods 619: Now, among all
Worldly affairs there 15 not any thing {o
* difficult, and fuller of incerticudes as the Are
y of Ruling man, For thoſe nimble ſpirits (as
'Witis ſpoken elſwhere) who from Apprentices
have been made Freemer of the Trade, and
'Matlaſt thought chemſelves Maſters, having.
\Mfpent their "Youth, their Manhood, and a
Wong rime of old age therein, yer when chey
1came to leave the World they profeſſed
| themſelyes ſtill ro | be but Novices in the
BO Trade.
b (236) |
Trade. There is a known way to break,
guide, and keep in awe all other Animals, |
chough never (o ſavage and ſtrong ; bur}
there is no ſach certaine way to govern
multitudes of men, in regard of ſuch tur:
bulences of ſpirit and diverſity of opinions
that proceed from the Rational Faculty,
which other cretures that are contented on-
ly with ſezſe, are not ſabje& unto ; and
this the Philoſopher holds to be one of
the inconveniences that attend humane rex
ſon, and why it is given man as a part of his
puniſhment. |
| Now, why- the Government over mens.
fo difficult, there may be two main reaſons
alledg'd, The firſt is che various events, and
World of inexpeRted contingencies that
attend humane negotiatiofis, ſpecially mat-
ters of State, which, as all other ſublunary £ 4;
things, fre ſubjJeCt to alterations, miſcarria- p
ges, and change, this makes the mindes of & ,,
men, and conſequently the moulds of policy ſh «
ſo often to alter, fcarce one amongſt rwenty I },
is the fame man as he was twenty years fl |
ago in point -of jndgement,which curns and I ,
changerh according to the ſuccefle: and If i;
circumſtances of things, Thie wiſedome of | ,
one day is - the fooliſhneſſe of another,
be 2 TY Poſterior
[<—_ Y
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—_ «a . £5
(237)
Poſterior Dies eſt priorrs Maziſter,the Day fol-
lowing becomes the former dayes Teacher.
The. Second Reaſon is, the diſcrepant,
and wavering fancies of meas braines, ſpe-
cially of the common-peeple, who (if not re-
ſtrained) are ſubje& ro ſo many crotchets
and chy meras,with extravagant wanton. de=-
fires, and gaping after innovations. Tnſ#-
lary peeple are obſerved to be more tranſ-
ported with this inſtability then. thoſe of the
Continent, and the Inbabitants of this Ile
more then others, being a well-fed:-ſprireful
peeple ; In ſo much, thar it is grown: a Pro-
verb abroad, that The Engliſhman doth nos
know when he is well: Now the true Polititis
an doth uſe to fit his Government to: the
fancy of the peeple, the ruler muſt do as the
rider, ſome peeple are to. be rid with ſtrong:
birts and curbs, and martingalls,as the N4-
pollitan, and French our next neighbour,
which is the cauſe that a kind of ſlavery is
entail'd upon him, tor the French Peaſant is
born with chains ; Other Nations may berid
with a gentle ſmall bridle, as the Yenetian
and the Hollander, who hath nor ſuch boil-
ng ſpirits ag others ; A bridle doth ſerve
alſo the: 8$panmgrd, who is the greteſt' ex-
ample of ſtability, and exact obedience:
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others are, I mean to firs of inteſtin commo-
tions: And 'chis was never fo muchitryed as
of late yeers ; for though che preſent King}
hath ſuch known frailcies, chough he hack" þ
bin ſo infortunar, as to have many Coun--
freys quite revolted, and rent away from Mai
him ; though the ragingſt Plague that ever Wc
was in Spain under any King, bappen'd of «le,
late yeers, which (weep'd away ſuch a world"-þnd
of peeple ; though his Taxes be higher Þru
then ever were any, though he hath call'd in-be)
and engroffed all the cemmon coyn of the''ÞV
Countrey, and delivered bur the one halfe”Per!
back again, reſerving- the other half for 'Þv
Himſelf ; though there's no legall Inſtru- Bl:
ment, no Bond, Bill, or Specialry can be”'P'id!
writ buc upon his ſeal'd paper, with ſundry' Jn
other exactions, yet his ſubjeRts are Rill Fi!
as obedient, and awful unto him, they are "+
as conformable and quiet, as if he were the Je!
moſt vertuous, and victorious Prince that” '' it
ever was; and this they do principally for '"F""«
their owa advantage, for if ther were ano-- C
ther Governour ſet up, ic would inevita- ' i
bly burle the whole Countrey into ae:
LON
« (239) ©
[*KRion and tumults ; befides, they are caught,
{char as in choice of Wives, ſo the Rule
m4!
(Nbetter. *
- Touching the Originals of Government
and ruling power, queſtionleſs the firſt a-
1s: lmong Mankind was that Naturall power of
; the Father over his Children, and that
'{Deſporical domeſtique ſurintendence. of a
aſter of a houſe over his Family ; Bur the
/orld multiplying to ſuch a Maſle of pee-
:le, chey found that a confuſed equality,
dad a looſe unbridled way of living like
e-Þrute animals ro be fo inconvenient, that
qi-ſbey choſe one perſon to protet and
&Fovern; not ſo much out of loye to the
Perſon, as for their own conveniency and
r Þdvantage; that they might | live more re-
-'Pularly, and be ſecur'd from rapine, and op-
holds in Governments, Seldome cones 4
e-P@icfſlion ; As alſo that juſtice might be ad-
y' Finiſtted 4 and eyery: one enjoy his own
[ Fitbout fear, and danger : ſuch Govern-
«Furs had a power inveſted accordingly in
-'-\ FÞem,alſo as to appoint (ubſervient,able Mi-
p Wilters under them to help to bear the
+ | Furden., |
. || Concerning the kinds of Government,
|| Ml Policitians agree that Morarchall is the
| (240) """M
beſt and nobleſt ſort of ſway, having the
neereſt analogy with thar of Heaven, ws,
A ſupreme power inone finste perſon; God
Almighty is the God of Unity, as well-zz
of Entity, and all things that have an Entity
do naturally propend to Unity z Unity is 3
neceffary 'for 2 well-b:ing, as Entity is tor a
Being, for nothing cohduceth more to order,
tranquillity,andquietude,nor is any ſtrength
fo operative as the anired ; The fiſt sf.
ſtronger ther the hand, though it be nothino
but the' hand, viz. The fingers united by
contration 5 The Republick of Venice
which 15 accounted the moſt Eagle-eydj
and laftigft State in the World, fa ihbef:
hach continued a pure Virgin, and ſhin dj
within her watry Orb nere upon thirteen
Ages, i$the ficteſt to give the World ad
zvice herein, -for if ever any have brought ;6f
policy to be a Sciente which confiſts of. ca,
| titudes,this Srare 19 Shee, who. is grown a , a
9 F/12
_ dexterous in ruling men as.in_ rowing of
Eally. But whereas che yulgar opinion ;F,,;
that the common peeple there have a ſha 5]
in the Government, *eis nothing ſo, for hq 5
Great- Counſel which is rhe maine hin. 1
whereon the Republick turns, is compgl Up;
- onely of Geatlemen' who - are capable | I Cr
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"their bitth co fic there, bavinz paſſed ewerti
ty five years of age; To which purpoſe
they muſt bring a publick Teſtimonial thic
they are deſcended of a Patrician or noble
Family. But to*return to the main matter; ..
this ſage Republick who may preſcribe rules
of Policy co all Mankind, having tryed-ar
firſt co Govera by Conſals and Tribunes
for ſom years, ſhe found ic at laſt a great in-
convenience, or deformity rather, to have
two heads upon one body z Therefore She
, | did (er up one Soverdign Prince ; arid in the
2-0 Records of Yepice the reſons are yet extant
'" | which induc'd her thereunto, whereof one
3.0 0:the remarkableſt was this ; ws have obſer-
* {| vedthat in this vaſt Univerſity of the world:
5 4 Badres according to thetr ſeveral Natures
| have multiplicity of Motions, yet they receive
vertue and wvieour but from one, which s the
*f San; All cauſes derive their Originals from
Il One ſupreme cauſes we ſee that in one. Cretyre.
"there are many differing Members, aud. Facul>:
ll ies which have various funtFions, yet they art
47 guided by one ſoul, 8c.
'M The Iſland of Great Britai/z hath bin al-
-\Fwaies a Royal Ifle from her fixſt creation,
"ind Infancy ; She may be ſaid to haye worn
{Þ Crown in her Cradle ; amd though She hag
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{o many revolntions, and changes of Maſters,
yet She continved-ſ{till Royal; nor is there
any ſpecies of Government that ſuits bet.
rer, either with the quality of the Countrey,
.- and Genius of the Inhabitants , or relates
more direaly to all the aacient Lawes, Con-
ſtituctons, and Cuſtoms of the Land, then
Monarchal ; which any one that is conver-
fant in the Old Records can juſtifie 5 Brit an-
nia ab initio mundi ſemper Regia, & regimtn
Hlins ſumile illk calorum.
- Concerning the many ſorts of Truſt
which were put in the Supreme Governor of
this Land (for ther muſt be an implicice and
unayoidable neceſlary Truſt repoſed in-eve-
ry Soveraign Magiſtrate) the- power of the
Sword was the chiefeſt ; and it was agreeable
to Holy Scripture he ſhold have it, where we
know tis ſaid, The King beareth not the Sword
7n vain; The Lawes of Emeland did ever al-
low it to be the inalienable prerogative of
the Soveraign Prince,nor was it ever known
(humbly under favour) that any other pow-
er whatſoever managing conjundly or: fing-
ly, did ever pretend to the power of the
publick Sword, or have the Militia inveſted
in them, but this ever remained intire-and
untransferrible in the perſon of the m_ :
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chief, whole chiefeſt inſttumenr't Foverti
by is the Sword, without which Cronties;
Scepters, Globes and Maces are bur babtes;
Icis thacTnſtrimear which canſeth tru obe-
dience, rakes him a Dread Soveraign, and -
to be feared at hame and abroad ; Now "tis
a Maxime in policy, that ther cag ; be rio cru
obedience without Fear; The Crown and
Scepter draw only a looſe kind'of voluntary
love, and opinion from che peopte; bur 'ris
the ſword thac draws Reverence and awe,
which cwo are the chieteſt ingredients of Al-
legeance, it being a principle, thac' the beſt
; Government i 1s made of Fear and Love, viz:
when by. Fear Love is drawn as threed
through che eve of a Needle; The ſureſt
Obedience, and Loyalty is cauſed thus, for
Fear being the wakefulleſt of our paſſions
works more powerfully in us and predomi-
nates over all the reſt; primms in orbe Dens
fecit Timor: To raile up a Soveraign Ma-
giſtrare withour giving him the power of the
ſword, is to ſer one up.to rule a merall'd
Horſe wittiout a Bridle; A chief Rufer
without a Sword, may be ſaidto be like thi:
Logg of Wood which Fupiter threw down
among the Froggs tobe their King, as it is
' inthe Fable: Moreover; One of the chicf-
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eſt glories of a Nation is to have their Sy-
preme Governor to'be eſteem'd, and: re-
douted abroad as well as ar Home. And
whar Forren Natian will do either of theſe
to the King of England if he be Armleſs,
and without a Sword * who will 'give any
reſpec ot precedence to his Ambaſladors, and
Miniſters of State © The Swordalſo is the
prime Inſtrument of publick proteCtion,
therefore that King who hath not the power
of the Sword, muſt have another Title gi-
ven Him, the Protector of his peeple, +:
- Now, .in a Succeſſive hereditary King-
dom, as England is known, and acknowledy-
ed to be by all Parties now in oppoſition,
There are three things which are inalienalle
from the Perſon of the Kine : They are;
1. The Crowne,
- 2, The Scepter,
3. The Sword.
Theone, He is to carty on His Head, the
other in His Hazd,and the third at His $7;
and they may be termed all three the er
fignes or peculiar inſtruments of a King : | by
the firſt, He Reigxes, by the ſecond He
makes Lawes, by the third He Defens
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them: and the two firſt are but . bables
without the laſt, as was formerly ſpo-
ken. | HEELS I 3 OS?
1, Touching the Crows or royal Diadem
of England, ther is none, whether Precbyte=
rian, Independent, Proteſtant, or others now
in ation, but confeſs that ir deſcends by a
righr hereditary Line, (though chrongh di-/
vers Races, and ſom of them C/nnquerours)
upon the Head of Charles the firft now Regs
nant - tis His own by iaherent birth-righe
and nature, by Gods Law, and the Law @f
the Land, and theſe Patrliament-men at
their firſt fitting did agnize ſabjetion unto
Him accordingly, and recognize Him for
their Soveraign Liege Lord : Nay, the Ro-
man Catholick denies not this, for though
there were Bulls ſent to diſpenſe with the
Engliſh SubjeRs for their: allegiance to
Queen Elizabeth, yer the Pope did this a-
eainſt Her as he took Her for a Heretick, not
an Uſurpreſſe, though he knew well enough
that She had bin declared Illegitimate by the
A& of an Engliſh Parliament. Y
This Imperial Crown of Zzeland is ador-
ned and deck d- with many fair Flowers,
which are called, royal Prerogatives 5 and
they are of ſuch a tranſcendenc_ nature, that.
| "yy they
(246)
they are unforteitable, individual, and an-
cransferrable to any other: The: King cat
only ſuchmon and . diffolye Parliaments:
The King can only Pardan: (for when He is
rowned, He is {worn to rule in Mercy. as
well as in Juſtice :) The King can only Coyn
Money, and enhance or decry the 'value of
it: The power of electing Officers of State,”
of Juſtices of Peace and. Aſſze 1s . in: the
King; He canonly grant ſoveraign Com-
miffions : The King can only wage War,
and make Qur-landiſh Leagyes: The King
may make all the Courts of Juſtice ambu+-
latory wich His Perſon, as they were uſed of
old; *cis tru, the Court of Common Pleat
muſt be iedentary in ſom certain place. for
ſuch a time ; bur thar expired, 'tis remove-
able 2r His pleaſure: The King can only
employ Ambaſſadours and Treat with for-
raien Scates, &c.. Theſe, with other royal
Pcerogatives which I ſhall touch hereafter,
are thoſe rare and wholſom flowers where-
with the Crown of England is embelliſhed,
nor can they ſtick any whereelſe bur in the
Crown,and all confeſs the Crown is as much
the King's, as any private man's Cap is his
OWNe-
OWn
2, The fecond regall Jaftrument is the
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Scepter, which may be called an inſeparable
companion, or 4a neceſſary appendix to #e
Crown; this.inveſts the King with the ſole
Authority of making Lawes, for before His
confirmation all reſults and determinations
of Parliament are but Bills or Tle-Pzazvuale,
they are but abortive things , and
meer Embryos z nay, they have no liteart all
in them till che-Kzzg puts breath and vigour
into chem : and the ancient cuſtome was for
the K7ng to touch them with His Scepter,
then they are Lawes, and have a vertue in
them to impoſe an obligation of uniyerſall
obedience upon all ſorts: of people, It being
an undeniable maxime, That zotb!ng can be
generally bindine without the King's royall
aſext, nor doth the Law of Exgland take no-
tice of any thing without it: This being done
they are. ever after ſtyl'd the Kings Lawes,
£ and the Jadges are ſaid ro deliver the King's
judgments, which agrees with the holy texr,
The King by judement ſhall ſtabliſh the Land -
nay, the Law preſumes the K7ze, to be al-
; Evaies the ſole Judge Paramount, and Lord
{chief Juſtice of Exgland, for he whom He
'Epleaſerh ro depute for His chiefeſt Juſtice,
1s but ſtyl'd Lord chief Fuſtice of the Rings
he (2%, not Lord chiet Juſtice of Zngland,
R 4 which
(248)
which rigle is peculiar ro the. Xi/»g Himſelf,
and obſervable it 1s, that whereas He grants: ;
Commiſſions and -Patents to. the Lore fl;
- Chancellour (who is no other then Keeperof:
d
His Conſcience) and to all other Judges, Hef;
names the Chief Jaſtice of his own Bench: ||
by a ſhort Writ only containing two or three: |;
lines: which run thas, Regina Fohanni Pop-. fly
ham militi [alutem , Sctatus quod conflitutmus fi;
w0s juſticiarium noſtirum Capitalem ad placita
coram nobrs terminandum durante beneplacits. 1
noſtro; Teſte 8c. Now, though the- Kine | 3
be liable to the Laws, and is contented ro. lg
be wichin their verge, becauſe they are chick |
ly His own productions,yet He 4s {till their:
Protector, Moderator, and - Soveraigne;,ſſc
which atcributes are incommunicable-ro:Wfc
any other conjundtly or feparately, « +/
Thus the King with His. Scepter, and by!
the mature advice of His two Hauſes ofi
Parl. which are His higheſt Councel and:
Court, hath the ſole pawer of making Laws;
other Courts of judicature doe but expound:ſra
them and diſtribute them by His appoint-:ſhe
ment, they have but Furis dati diFionem or
dec!arationem,and herein,I meane for theEx«:
poſition of the Lawes he twelve Fudees are
[0 be velieved before the whole a be-
> ; " path
12. = Eos
{ders They are as the Areopagites in A+
thens, the chief Preſidents in Fraxce and'
rd. I Spaine in an extraordinary Funte,as theCapee
of: | Syndiques in the #ota's of Rome, and the Re-
le; pybliqueof Yenice,whoſe judgments in poitt
ch-Þ of interpreting Lawes are incontroulable,
ee: [nd preferred before the opinion of the
p-- whole Senate whence they received their be-
9s ſing; and who hath ſtill power to repeal them,
14: though rior to expound them.” In Fraxce
10: they have a' Law maxime, Arreft donne en
ne Nl rcbbe rouge eſt! irrevocable, which is, 4 Scarlet
£0: Sentence is irrevocable, meaning when all the
-| YJudges are met in thetRobes,and the Client
et: 2ozinſt whom the Cauſe goes, may chafe and
ie, comp npon the bir, and ſay what he will
t9:for the ſpace of twenty foure howers againſt
his Judges, but if ever after he traduces
Fthem,he is puniſhable : Ic is no otherwiſe
| here where every ignorant peeviſh Client,
»Revery puny Bariſter, ſpecially it he become
:: Member of the Houſe will be ready to ar-
aign and vie knowledge with all che reve-
;rend Jadges in the Land, whoſe judgemenc
im-poinrs of Law ſhold be onely tripodicall
Fod ſterling: ſo thac he may be truly call'd
: juſt King, and torule according to Law,
ho rules according to the opinion of his
[evo | | - - © Judges
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Judges ; therefore,under favour, Ido not-ſeefþ;4
how his Majeſty for, his part. could bel;
call'd injuſt. when he leavied the Ship-:
money , conſidering he had the Judges for;bþr
It. W2
I now take the Sword in hand, which is the þ;
third Inſtrument of a King, (and which chis {gi
ſhort diſcours chiefly points at) itis as 'well $;;
as the two firſt incommunicable and inalie-/hh;
nable from his Perſon 5 norhing.congernes. þ g;
his honor more both ar home and abroad,
.the Crown and the Scepter are but unweildy; fy
and impotent naked indefenfible things
without it. There's none ſo ſimple. as to
think there's meant hereby an ordinary ſin-;þ
gle (word, ſuch as ev'ry one carrieth by his;
ſide, or ſom imaginary. thing or chymera;
of a {word z No, 'tis the polemicall publique;
ſword of the whole. Kingdom, "cis an ag- pre,
gregative compound {word, and 'tis moul-;
ded of bell-metall ; for 'tis made up of. all;
theammunition and armes ſmall and great,
of all: rhe military ſtrengths. both by Land. ot
and Sea, of all che Forts,Caſtles and tenable,
places within and round about the whole Ile;
The Kings of Engl. have. had this ſword by
vertue of their royall ſignory from all rtimes,;
the Laws have girded it co their ſides, . they:
| | have i *
. (251)
e ſhive employed it for repeling all foren force,
x llfor revenging all forren wrongs or affronts,
Kor quelling all inteſtine tumults, and for
r:;fproteting the weal of the whole body po:
icicke at home : The peeple were never ca-
pable of this (word, the fundamencall con-
ſticutions of this Kingdom deny it them 3
cis all one to put the {word ina mad mans
2nd, as in the peeples 3 or for thena to have
$ diſpoſing power in whoſe hands it ſhall be,
Buch was che caſe once of the French
ſword, in that notorious inſurrection call'd
tothis day £4 Faqperis de Beauvoiſin, when
the Peſants and Mechanicks had a defign to
reſt it out of the Kings hand, and to de-
prefſe all the Peers and Gentry of the King-
ſom 3 and the buſinefſe had gone {o far that
he peaſans might have prevaiBd,had not the.
'elats: ſtuck cloſe to the Nobility 35 Bur
iſrerwards poor hare*brain'd things they de-
Ire the King upon bended knees to take it
2gainez Such popular puffs bave blowen
often in Poland, Naples and 'other places,
where while they Fought and fought for 1i-
berty by retrenching the regall power, they
Fool'd themſelfs into a ſlavery unawares,
Wand found the rule right, that exceſſe of. free-.
iom tyrus to thraldom, and uſhers in all con-
ys FAATROS BY FHF 46 | ne
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fuſions, If one ſhold oO: back to. he EY lr
nage of the world, when 'Governers and Ru- || xe
lers began firſt, one will find the peeple des h
fir'd to live under Kings for their own ads |
vantage, that they might be reſtrain'd from "
wild exorbitant liberty, and: kept-in unity; |;
Nownnity is as requiſit for the wel-being |»
- of all naturall things, as entity is for their. bee ſv.
ing, and 'tis a recetvd maxime in policy;that ||
nothing preſerves Unity more exaQly then
Royal Government : beſides, 'tis known tv
be the nobleſt ſort of (way In ſo much that
by the Law of Nations, if Subjects of equal
degrees, and under differing Princes ſold
meet, the Subje&s of a King ſhold take Pre- |
_ cedency of thoſe under any Republique. - -
But to take up the Sword again: I ſay that!
the Sword of public Power and Authority's
fir only to hang at the Kings fide, and ſoin-
deed ſhold the Great Seal hang only-at his
girdle, becauſe is the Key of the King-'
dom : which makes me think of what 1 read:
of Charlemain, how lie had the imperial Seal
emboſs'd alwaies upon the pommel of, his
Sword, and his reaſon was, that he 'was rea-i
dy to maintain hacer he ſigned, and:
ſealed, . |
The Civilians, who are not in all points fo
oreat
(
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-»f oreat friends to Monarchy as the Comman
W a of England is, ſay, there are fix Jura
|| Regalre, fix Regal Rights, wiz. I. Poteſtas
| Fudicatoria, 2. Poteſtas vite &f necis, 3. Ar-
ds | mamenta, 4. Bona adeſpota, 5. Cenſus, 6,
Mm | Monetarnm valor : to wit, Power of Fudica-
1s [eure, Power of Life and Death, all kind of ar-
ng fming, mnaſterleſs goods, Seiſſements, and the
e« floalue of m0ney)s
ar | Among theſe Regalie's, we find that: Ar-
n [ni”g, which in effect is nonghe elſe but the
oi BKings Sword, is among the chiefeſt ; and
at J'tis as proper and peculiar to his perſon, as
ab Jeither Crown or Scepter. By theſe two he
Idrawes a looſe voluntary love and opinion
/ Jonly from his SubjeRs, but by the Sword
he draws reverence and awe, which are the
chiefeſt ingredients of allegiance, it being a
is maxime, That the beſt mixture of Gowern-
n=" | ment 15, made of fear and love. With this
is Sword he conferrs hongr. he dubbs Knights,
-"f be creates Magiſtrates, the Lord Deputy of
dB !rcland, the Lord Mayor of London with all
1-Yother Corporations bave their Swords from
1s bim, and when he enterech any place cor-
2» porate, we know tbe firſt thing that is pre-
d'F ſented him is the Sword ; With this Sword .
- Mie ſhields and preſerves all his people char
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every one may fit quietly under his. owt
Vine, ſleep ſecurely 1n his own Houſe, and
enjoy ſweetly the fruits of his labours, _
Nor doth the poiac of this Sward reath
only to every corner of his own dominion;
but it extends beyond the ſeas ro gard his
Subjects trom oppreſſion , and. denial of
juſtice, as well as to vindicate the -publickſ
wrongs, make good the intereſts of his <
Crown, and to aſſiſt his confederates.; This] «
is the Sword that Edward the third tied theft!
Flower deluces unto(which ſtick ſtill unto ir,)Þ| K
when having ſear to Frazce to. demand thatf n
Crown by maternal right, the 'Counſell ther tt
ſent bim word that the Crown of France wif ti
zot tied to a diſtaff, to which ſcoffing anſwerf ec
he replied, that then he wold tze it to hs ſword, ſ i
and he was as good as his word. . Nor is this]] hc
publick ſword concredited or intrufted by
che peeple in a fiduciary condicionall way .to
the King, but it is properly and peculiarly}:
belonging unto him, as an inſeparable. con-
comitant, perpetual Uther and attendant to
his Crown. The King, we know, uſerh off
maintain all garriſons upon his own charge,
not the peeples; be fortifies upon: his own
charge, not the peeples: And chough I wil
not averr, that the Kiog may impreſle any
h
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ol of his Subjects, unleſſe it be upon an aRuall
vaſion by Sea, or a ſudden irruption into” his
Kingdom by Land, as the Scots have often
done, yet at any time the King may raiſe
Volunteers, and thoſe who have received
ul his money, the Law makes it fe/oxy,if they
of | forſake his ſervice.
>| Thus we ſee there's nothing that condu-
his ceth more to the glory, and indeed the very
vis eſſence of a King then the Sword, which 15
heſ|the Armes and Military ſtrength of his
t,)| Kingdom ; wherfore under fayour, ther can-
tat not be a greater point of diſhonour to a King
terf] then to be diſarmed, then to have his $word
»4 | taken from him, or difpos'd of and incruſt-
fer ed ro any but thoſe whom he ſhall appoint ;
74, tor as 4 min074 ad 24jus the Argument often
his] holds, if a private Gentleman chance to be
by] diſarm'd upon a quarrell, *tis held the anrmoſt
co} ofdiſgraces, much greater and more public
lyſis chediſhonor that falls upon a King, if af-
on-l ter ſom traverſes of difference *twixt him
to and his Subjects, they ſhold offer ro difarm
-him;'or demand his Sword of him: when
oe ll the Eagle parted with his talons, and che
Lion with his teeth and ongles, the Apolog
tells us how contemptible afterwards the
j ne grew to be amang Birds, the other a-
| | mong
(256)
mon Birds, the other among Beaſts, * For
a King co part with the Sword politic” is to
render himſelf ſuch a ridiculous King,as that
logg of wood was which Fapiter let down i-
mong the froggs for their King at the im-
portunity of their croaking ; tis to make
him a King of clouts, or as the Spaniard
hach it, Rey de Havas, a Bean: King, ſuch
as we ule to chooſe in ſpore at Twelt-
hight.
-- Bur my hopes are that the two preſent
Houſes of Parliament (for now they may be
_ calFd ſo, becauſe they begin to parley with
their King,) will be more tender of the ho-
nour of their Soveraign Liege Lord,. which,
together with all his Rights and Dignicies,
by ſeverall folemn Oaths, aud by their own
binding inſtruments of Proteſtation and Co-
venant, (not yet revok'd) they are ſworne
co maintaine, and that they will demand no-
thing of him which may favour of Aſperte
or force, but what may hold water hereaſrer:
But now, touching the A1:2/4 or Sword of
the Kingdom, I think, under favour, the
King cannot transfer itto any other; for þ
that were to deſert the proteRion of his peo-
ple, which is point blank againſt his Coro-
nation Oath and his Office - What _
- Prince
(257)
Prince or State will ſend either Ambaſſador;
Reſident or Agent to him, when they, under-
ſtand his- Sword is taken from him 5 Whac
reformed forein Church will acknowledg
Him Defendor of the Faith, when they hear
of this ? Nay, they who wiſh England no
g00d will, will go near co paint him our,
as not long tince another King was, with a
fair velvet Scabbard, a ſpecious golden hilt
and chipe, but the blade within was of wood.
I hope chat they who ſway now, will' make
becter uſe of their ſuccefles : Many of them
know 'tis as difficult a thing to uſe a vidtory
well, as to get one , ther is as much prudence
requir'd in the one, as proweſle in the other;
they will be wiſer ſure then turn ic to the
diſhonor of cheir King : ic: being'a certain
rule, chac the glory of a Nation all the world
over depends upon the glory of their King,
and if he be any way obſcur'd,. the whole
Kingdom is under an eclipſe. |
| Thave gbſerved, that among other cha-
racers of gallancry, which forein Writers ap-
propriat co the Engliſh Nation, one is, that
| they uſe co be moſt zealous to preſerve the.
Honor of their King ; I truſt that they wha
ae now up will return'to the ſteps of their
Progenitors, both in this particular and divers
\ others
| ſitians have andon mee
(258)
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newes may intervene which may imbitter
and diſturb all: nor can it be expected thar
the proceedings will go on with that candor
and confidence, while the old: rancor is ſtill
in ation: 'tis impoſſible a ſore ſhold heal
till the inflamation be taken away z To caſt
water into a wound inſtead of oy/e is not the
way to cure it: or to caſt oy/e upon a fire in-
Read of water is not the way to quench it;
poor England hath had a conſuming fire
within her bowels many years, ſhe is alſo
mortally wounded in all her members, that
ſhe is ſtill in a high Fever, which tach made
her rave and ſpeak idle a long rime ; and tis
like toturnroa Hedc,it not timely prever-
ted. Ipray God ſhe may have no occaſion
to make uſe of the ſame complaint as Alex:
ander the Great made when he was expiring
his laſt, Perii turba Medicorum : too many Phy-
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fra PP T7 TT > ow vow
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(259 ')
To conclude in 4 word,ther is but ore n=
iy way, under favor, to put a period to all
theſe fearful confuſions ir is, to put the
oreat Maſtet-wheel in order, and if irs due
place again, and thenall che inferior wheels
will move regularly ; let thie King be re-
ſtor'd, and ev'ry one will come to his own ;
all intereſts will be farisfied,all things quick-
ly reQified ; till this be done, tis as abſurd to
attempt the ſerling of peace, as if one ſhold
go about to ſet a Watch by the gnortien of
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Paranefis Angle,
Þ 45meory (ſpecially thou
| # belotted City of London)
if Thou beſt not quite paſt cure,
or grown careleſs and deſperat
| of thy ſelf, if the leaſt ſpark of
' | Grace,or ray of Re/on be yet re-
maining in T hee, be warn'd, be
| I warn'd by this ranger, who ha-
\ [ ving felt thy pulſe, and caſt thy
| | water very exactly,diſcovers in
. | Thee ſymptoms of inevitable
BRnine if thou holdſt on this
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tears in. their eyes, and terror in|
their hearts, to recolle&t thy ſelf,
and returnto thy old road if” Q-
| bedience to: thy | Soveraſn
| Prince, But T hey have bin lice
| regarded, Let a Foreincrs advite | |
then take place, and make. ſom
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Sent from LONDON, Anno 16475 be
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Cardinal of the moſt holy Apoſtolick See,
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at his Palaces'in Rome,
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an account proportionably : For by convers- de
ſation wich the moſt indifferenr, and intel: an
genc'd men, and by communication with; ſw:
the Ambaſſadors here reſident, I have taken; 1y
ſome paines to pump out the truth: of: | by
things , and penetrat the Intereſt of all te
Parties. th
And truly, 1 find, that That angry fi, pr
which hath lowr'd ſo long upon Enle ”
generall, hath been as predominant, an pat y
as diretull aſpects upon, this poor Iland, as || be
it hath done upon any other part - \Truly; ha
my Lord, inall probability this peeple bave. [|
paſsd the Meridian of their happineſfe, and- [| 4
begin to decline extreamly, as well in Repwie | ye
abroad, as alſo in the common notions. of. Þ| ve
Religion, and indeed in the ordinary faculty; || 4
of Reaſon : I think verily che Il Spiric never! | hi
reign'd {o-muck in any-corner of the earth || ſp
by thoſe inkumane avd horrid things that 1 Nx
have obſery'd among them, Noris ita pet» || Y
Iy. Spirit, but.ene of the greateſt Caroder.
#ons thar thus drives theaz\on, and makes
them ſo ative in the purſuance of their ova
perdition. | :
To deduce matters from their Origicall,
Your Emingncy may pleaſe connderftand,
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deep debts to pay, both of His Fathers,
and his own; he was left ingaged in a freſh -
warre with $p4in's and hadanothier preſent-
0! Þ ly after which. Frapce, and both at one time,
but he came off well enough of thoſe : Af-
rerwards never. any Countrey flouriſhed in
that envied happinefſe, and wanton kind of
proſperity 5 This City of Londen was grown
to be the greateſt Mart,and miſtreſs of crade,
of any in the world ; Infomuch, as I have
been certainly inform'd , the King might
have pet meerly upon His cuſtomes 4005
crowns a"day : Moreover, ſhe had a vaſt
bank of money being made the ſcale of con-
veying the King of Spazns. treaſure to Flan-
Jers 2 Infomuch thar in a few yeers ſhe had
#bove ten millions of his moneys brought
hither, which ſhe might have remicced m
ſpecie or in-marchandize, and for which this
King had fiye-in the hundred for coynage- :
Yet could be nor get beforeha$ with the
world, having a fiſter with ſo many; Ne-
phews and neeces, having a Queen with - di-
yerſe children of His own, (at leaſt 16 of
the Blood- Royall) to mainraine, with divers
protufe Courtiers beſtdes, which made Him
more parfimonions then. ordinary. The
Watres then growing more active 'twixt
Spaine
(268),
x Spaine and Hand” 25 alſo? ewixt Holland an |
Spaine both by Land and. Sea, -anddivg
_ grear Fleets of Men. of War as well 'Fren
(who were growne: powerfull chat way)
Duankerkers, Spaniards, Hollanders,and Haw;
- burgers, appearing daily in: His narrow Sex] s
"and (ayling cloſe by His, Chambers, the
. world wondred \this King had; no greats:
. rength ar Sea, in cafe chat any. of the fars-}|j;
ſaid Nations ſhould doe him an affront,is}y;
ſome ofthem had already done, by denyize 5;
to daſh their Colours to his Ships: Inſomuch:
'that in Holland and other places. he ws T.
- paſquill'd at, and pourtrayed lying in his js
| Us lullaby'd and rock'd alleep by the Spagi
ard : Hereupon being by. advertiſement
from his Agents abroad, and: frequent a&
: vice of His Privie Councell at. home, madel-
Tenſible of the danger, and a kind of diſhon-ſſſ jy
our hewas faln into, and having intelligence J
that:the French Cardinall began to queſtionſſ'jc
-his ricle to the Dominion of the narrow Sear hl
confidering He employed no viſible poweſ'n
copreſerve it, He began to conſult. of meane}}[: c;
to ſet forth. a royall Fleet: burin regard theſſ-q
Parſe of the Crowne was lightly. ballaſted,
and that he had no. mind to'ſummon tte
chree Eſtates, becauſe of ſome indignitic
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he had received in former Parliaments. by
the Puritan party (a race of people averſe to
allKingly Government, unlefle they may
"pare it as they pleaſe) bis then Atturney Ge-
FF nerall(Noy) a great cryed- up- Lawyer, pur it
wlin his Head to impoſe an old Tax called
$$ 5/ip-mony upon the Subject, which the ſaid
awyer did warrant upon his life to be Le-
t gall, for he could produce divers Records
EF tow many of his Progenitors had done the
SFlike: The King nor ſatisfied with his ſingle 0-
ZI pinion,refer'd it to his learn'dCouncil, &they
unanimouſly averredic to be agreeable ro the
Law of the Land; yer this i. # not fully {a-
tisfie the King,but He would have the Opini-
all on of His twelve Judges, and they alſo affir-
med by their ſng/e vouches the ſaid Tax to
be warrantable; Hereupon it was impoſed and
ay leavied, but ſome refuſing to pay it, there
was a ſuite commenc'd, during which all the
Judges were to re-deliver their opinions
joyntly, and the buſinefle being matutely
debated and canyaſed in open Court divers
months, and all arguments produc'd pro &
con, nine of the ſaid twelve Judges conclu-
dedit legal. Thereupon the King continued
the impoſition of the ſaid Tax, and never
was mony imployed ſo much for the Hon-
_ Uurand advantage of a Countrey, for hie ſent
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- out every Summer a royall fleet tb ſcowts if
and ſecure the Seas ; he cauſed a Galevn tf d
be built, che pronceh and gallanceſt thar fp
yer ſpread faile : Nor did he purſe up, 2nd} p!
diſpoſe of one peny of this money to any 6: m
ther uſe, bur added much of his own Rey tt
nues yeerly thereunto : So the world abroff] a
cried up the King of Znelandto be awakece
againe ; Traae did wonderfully encreate,m
both Domeſtic and forrein in all the" three ib
Kingdomes 3 Ireland was reduced to an abfo-J] di
lure Settlement, the Arrears of the CromH
payed, and @' confiderable Revenue carteſs
thence cleerly'to the Exchequer of ZnglawJ<0
every year, the ſalaries of all Officers, with N:
the pay of the ſtanding Army rhere, aad al 83
other Charges being defrayed by 7reland ber ly
ſelf, which was never done before, Yet for H«
all his heighr of pappineſſe, and the glorious"
fruites of the ſaid Ship-money, (which wa")
' bur a kind of petty inſenſible Tax,& athiq}Þ0
_ of nothing co what hath hapened fince)there}{er
were ſome fooliſh peeple in this Land which|N*y
murmured at.it, and cryed nothing elſe but: Biſ
Parliament, a Parliament ; and chkey'havPor
| had aParliament fince-with a vengeance. Fic
| Bur before this occafipn, it was oþſer$J2ot
ved,that the ſeeds.of diſobedience, and File
| ſpici
Fare
of ſpirit of inſurrection was a long time engen-
-F ariog in the hearts of ſom of this peace- *
pampred People, which is conceived. ro.
| proceed from their converſation and com-
merce with three ſorts of men, v2. che Scor,
the Hollander and the French Huguenot, Now
if|an advantage happened that muth condu-
ke (cd to neceſlicate the convoking of a Parlia-
e, ment, which was an ill-fayoured traverſe
6+ char fell out in Scorfand'; For the King inten«
(ding an Uniformity of Divine worthip in all
mo His three Kingdoms, ſent thither the Zitur-
tell gy of this Church, but it found cold and
{courſe entertaiament ther, for the whole
1 Nation, men, women and children riſe np a
againſt chem 5; Herenpon the King abſoluce-
er ly revoked it by Proclamation, wherein
for He declared'twas never His purpoſe to preſs
wlithe practiſe therof upon the Confciences of
vadeny 5 therfore commanded that all things
ſhold be in flat# quo privs, but this wold not
ſerve the turn, the Scot rook advantee here-
ih by to deſtroy Hierarchy, and pull down the
Biſhops to get their demeans: . To which
purpoſe they came with an Army in open
Field againſt their own Native King, who
(er bot diſgeſting this indignity, Muſtred ano-
4 Fiber Exgleſh Army z which being upon the
tr con-
; (27 2)
configes of both Kingdoms, a kigd. ef 2+-
cification, was plaiſtred over . for the-- pre:
The King returning to. London, and con-
ſulting His ſecond thoughts, reſented that:
inſolency of the Scots more then formerly:|
Hereupon He ſummons a-Parliament, and] |
deſires aid to Vindicar. that Afferont, of the -
Scot. The 5cot had ſtrong Jarelbgence, with |
thePuricanFaRtion in the Z2ghſbParliament, | |
who ſeemed to abet his quarrel, rather then || ,
to be ſenſible of any national diſhonour 6 | ,
ceived from him ; which cauſed that ſhort- ,
U
fi
lived Parliament co diffolve in diſcontent,
and the King was forced to find other means.
to raiſe and (ppport an Army by -privat ff 44
Loanes of His nobler fort of Subjects and c,
Servants: The Scot; having punRual Ad- pi
vertiſements of every thing that paſſed;yea, Nl;
in the Kings Cabiner Councel was not..idle |
all chis while, bur rallies wbatgyas left .of
the former Army (which by the Articles, of:
Pacification (a little before) ſhould have big, the
abſolutely diſmiſſed), and boldly invades,
England, which he durſt never. baye done,
if he had nor well known. that this Parican Þþ &
party which was now grown very powertul, en
' bere, and indeed had-7uvized him to this ex-1in,
©... -, Pedic;
Pj; (273) |
© Pediriofi, wold ſtand co hin. "This fofein
"Army being by the pernictoas clofe machi-
hitions of fon) mongrel Engliſhmen afore-
NF mentioned, 'entred into the Bowels of the
ny: Connery, the Kings was forced to call+this
preſent Parliament, with whom he comply-
nd eq in every thing, fo far as to (acrifice'un-
ne 0 them both Fuze, Biſhop, Counceller and
MJ coprtier; yea, He yielded to the crumbling
ity down of many tribunals of Juſtice, which
en} were an adyatitage to his- Prerogative 5 He
6 J afſented that che Prelaces, who wete the
8 moſt Ancient and Prime Members of the
It; F upper Houſe, and had priority of all otheis;
05F fince the firſt coofticucion of Parliament in
a Nl the enrollment of all Acts; He affented-}
ud 8 (5y char theſe, who were the greateſt
d: prop of His CBiwn ſhold be quice outed
& from among the Peers; He granted them
Ie Balfo a Trienniall Parliament, and aiter thar,
of; this Perpetuall ; which words, to the appre-'
a fhenfion of any rational man, carty with
them a grofle abſurdity in the very ſenſe of
65: ltbeching.: And touching this laſt Grane, ]
ad it from a good hand, that the Queen was
nl friend to this Parliament, and your Emt-
nice knows how chey - have requited Her
AFince, buc the main open Cornncellor to this
Stall A& was a Scots T Now
(294). ;
' Now the reaſon which they alledged for
this everlaſting Parliament was one of. the
baldeſt chat ever I heard of, is was,that they
might have time enough to. pay the. Scors
Army , wherasin one morning they might
have diſpatched thar, by paſſing ſo. many
Subſidies for that uſe, and upon the credit of
thoſe, they might have raiſed what money
they wold, q
able, and His pulſe to beat ſo gently, like
ili-natur'd mea they fall from inches to. ells
in ſeeking their advantages :: They grew 0
peremptory as to. demand all the Military
ſtrength of the Kingdom, the Tower, gf
Londos, with the whole Royal Navy, which
they found in an excellent equipage gra:
mercy ſhip-money; ſo tha®. the benefit. 0
ſhip- money, which chey ſo clamoured ar,
tarned moſt co their adyantage of any thing
afterwards, | OS. 15 a
The Scot being Fidler-like returned to his
Country with meat, drink, and money, the
King went a while after to keep a- Parliy
ment ther, wherein he filled every, blank,
they.did but ask and have, for He granted
them what poſlibly they. could propoung,
both for their Kirk and Stage, mary, if
| celve
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i The Parliament finding the King ſo, ply--
(275)
ceived Honour, and they divided Biſhop ps
Lands amongſt chem: tor all which unp3-.
rallel'd Conceſſions of Princely grace, they
cauſed an A already in force to be publiſh»
ed, Viz. that itthold be damnable Treafon
in the higheſt degree that could be; for any
of the Scots Nation conjunRly or ſingly ro
levy armes, or any Military Forces, upon a-
ny. Pretext: whatſoever, without His Maje-
Þ flies royal Commiſſion; and this they caui-
ſed to be don by way. of oratitude, but how
they perform'd it afterwards the world
knowes too well.
'TheKing returning to Loxdoy; inlieu of a
welcom'ro his'two Houles oft Parliament(to
hom alſo. before his deparitre he had paſs
ſed1 more Adts qfGrace then all his Proge-
nitofS:take chem all in a lump) they had
anche ap a kind of Remonſtrance, which was
yored in dead of the night, wherein they
expos'd to the world the leaſt moac in for-
mer government, and aggravated to the ve-
ty beighr every grievance, notwithſtanding
that the King had | redreſled all before ; and
this Remonſtrante, which breath'd nothing
but a baſe kind of malice, they preſented as
"1: noſegay to their Soveraign Prince, to con-
Dy grarulat his ſafe terurn from a forein Coun-
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trey 5 which Remonſtrance they caus'd"to' be
printed and publiſh'd before he: could- giye
any anſwer thereunto, The, King finding
ſuch a virulent ſpirit tillraigh in the Houſe,
and knowing who were chiefly poſſe(s'd with
It (viz, Thoſe whom he had impeach'd be-
fore, but ſaw he could ger no juſtice againſt
them) in ſuch an extremity, he did an at
like a generous Prince, for taking the '?
grave with him, he rook the firſt Coath
mer withall at his Conrr-gate, and went to
his Houſe of Commons 1n perſon, to de-
mand five Members, which he woldgove to
be Traicors in the higheſt degre wb:
the Authors of all cheſe diſtempe
ing upon the word of a King, Tn
ſhold have as fair & legal aftyal asev
had; in the interim he only deli f
their perſons might” be fecur, walls ge”
of both Houſes, : and the very tones in Sþ@0+-
don ſtreet did ſeem to ring' of this his "i UC
riage of the Kings, and "the ſound: ih 1
thence to the Country, whence th hy ly
Plebeians came preſently in whole her@ F:
rhis Ciry, who ſtrutting up and dowa' ti
ſtreets, had nothing 1n "their mouths, bit
chat che Priviledg of Parlement, the privilch vm
cf Parlement Was "Ra though i it be i
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known clear Law of the Land, that the
ve | Parlement cannot ſuperſede :or ſhelter any
716 | Treaſon. | =
e, | - The King finding how violently the pulſe
| of the groſly ſeduced people did -beat, and
e- || cher having bin formerly-divers riotous crues
& || of baſe Mechaniques and Mariners, who had
I affronted both his own Court, and the two
Houſes beſides, which the Commons, to
"WF their eternal reproach, conniv'd at, notwiths
ſtanding that divers motions were mide by
Je: | the Lords to ſuppreſſe them, the King alſo
having . "a intelligence that cher was a
miſchievghplor to ſurprize his perſon, re-
; | mov'd hiS@ourt to the Countrey,
The King departing, or rather being dri-
$22 away.chus from his two Houſes, by this
Ivucinons City, fe might well at his going
Mlaway haye ubraided her in the ſame words
844-2. the 3. did upbraid Pars, who being by _
(uch another cumultuous rabble driven out
fot her in the time of the Ligue, as he was lo-
Wong ſighe of her, he turn'd his face back,and
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wold draw into Acts what he had already
aſſenced unto, and it any thing was lefr yet
undon by him, he wold do its therfore hef
will'd them to leave off thoſe groundlels
feares and jealouſtes wherwith they had a-
mus'd both Ciry and Country ; and he was
ready to return at ail times to his Palace in
Weſtminſter,provided rhar his perſon might
be ſecur'd from the former barbariſms and
Ontrages: Bur in lieu of a dutiful compli
ance with their Prince, the thoughts of the
ewo Houſes ran upon nothing but war : The
King then retiring into the North, and
chinking with a few of his ſervants only to
g0 vifit a Town of his (##l!) he was denyed
entrance by a fatal unlucky wretch (Hotham)
who afterwards was ſhamgfully executed
with his Eldeſt Son, by command of his new
Maſters of the Parlement : The King being] *
thus (hut out of his own Town(which opendy £
rhe firſt dore to a bloudy war) pur forth af
Declaration, wherin be warn'd all his people
rhat they ſhold look to their proprieries; forlſ Þ
if He was thus barr'd of his own, how could
any privat Subje& be ſufs to: be Maſter of
any thing he bad, and herein,he wasas much
Prophet as Prince ; For the Parlemenr-menf
afterwards made themſelfs Land-Lords .
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the whole Kingdom, ic hath bin uſual- for
them: to thruſt any our of his freehold, ro
take his bed from under him, and his ſhirc
irom off his very back. The King being
kept thus out of one of his Townes, might
ſuſpe& that he might be driven out of ano-
ther, therfore 'twas time for him to look
co the preſervation of his Perſon, and. the
Country came 1n yoluntarily unto him by
thouſands ro that purpoſe, bur he made
choice of a few only to be his. gard, as ihe
Parlementeers had done a good while -be-
fore for themſelfs : Buc now they went os
cherwiſe to work, for they fella levying,
liſting and arming-men by whole Regiments
and Brigades cill chey had a very conſidera-
ble Army afoor, before the King had one
Muſqueteer or- Trooper on his ſide; yet
theſe men are ſo notoriouſly. impudent, as
to make the King the firſt Agegretlor of the
war, and to lay upon Him all the bloud thac
was ſpilt to this day, wherein the Devil
himſelf cannot be more ſhameleſſe. The
Parliamenteers having an army of toot and
horſe thus in perfe& Equipage, 'twas high
time for the King to look to himſelf, there-
fore he was forced to diſplay his royal Sran-
dard, and draw his ſword quite out : Thus a
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ciuel and moſt cruentous civil war began, | i
which-laſted near upon four years withour- ll k
intermiſſion, wherein there:happen'd more-|l f
p
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batta les, fizges and skirmiſhes, then paſſed
' in the Nether-lands in fourſcore years,and ft
herein the Engliſhmen may be ſaid ro get
ſom credir abroad in the world, that they [tl
have:the ſame bloud ranning in their veines || nt
(though not the ſame braines in their ſculls) || 0
which their Anceſtors had, who were ob- | th
ſerved to be the activeſt people i in the field, Fly
impatient of delay, and moſt deſirous of d
batraile then any Nation, nc
But it was one of the greateft miracles YT
that ever happend in chis Land, how the ſou
King was able to fubfiſt ſo long againſt the Yan
Parlamen: eers, conlidering the multiplicity wi
of infinite advancages they had of him by Fo:
water and land : for they had the Scot, the UC
Sea and the City on their fide ; touching the Fſhe
firſt, he ruſhed in as an Auxiliary with above Fu:
2p00Q. Horſe and Foor compleatly fur-do
niſh'd both with ſmall and great ammuniti- |
on and Arms, well cloth'd and money d::
For the ſecond, they had all che Kings ſbips:;
well 2pPointed, which are held to be theo
greateſt ſecurity of che Ifland both for de-'hin
tence agd. offence, for every. one af. chemWÞcc
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accounted one of the movingCaſtles of the
Kingdom : | beſides, they: had all the other
ſanding ſtone- Caſtles, ' Forts, and tenable
places'to boot : Concerning the Jaſt, (viz;
the City) therein they had all the wealth ,
bravery, and prime ammunition of England;
this being the only Magazin of men aud mo-
ney: Now if the K. had had bur one of theſe
on his fide, he had inall probability cruſh'd
them to npthing : yet did he bear up ſtrange-
ly againſt them along time, and might have
done longer, had he kept the campane, and
not ſpent the ſpirits of his men before
5 Townes; had he not made a diſadyantagi-
e flous election of (om Commanders in chief,
e fand laſtly, had he not had cloſe Traitors
y D[vwichin dores, as well as open Rebels without $
7 for his very Cabinet Councel, and Bed-
e [Chamber were not free of ſuch vermin, and
e fIberein the Parlemenrteers ſpent nnknown
e Fums and were very prodigal of the King-
'Fcoms money. |
i- | The King, after many traverſes of war,
1:bcing reduced to a great ſtrait by croſſe ſuc-
5 ceſles and Countels, rather then to fall in-
eo che hands of che Parlementeers, withdrew
imfſelf-in a Serving-mans diſguiſe to rhe
mÞcors army, as his laſt randevous, and _
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plotwas manag'd by the French Agent then
reſiding here z A man wold.chink that that
Nation wold have deemd it an eternal ho-
nour unto them to have their own King and
Countrey-man throw himſelf thus into
their armes,_ and to repoſe ſuch a ſingular
truſt in them upon ſuch an Extremity : bur
they correſponded not ſo well with him as
he expected, for though at firſt when the
Parlamenteers ſollicited their dear Brethren
for a delivery of the Kings perſon unto
them, their note was then, if any forein
petty Prince had ſo put himſelt upon them,
they conld not with honour deliver him,
munch leſs their own native King ; yet they
made a ſacrifice of him at laſt tor 800000,
Crownes ; wherupon Bellieure the French
Ambaſſador being convoyed by a Troop of
horſe from the King towards Londen, to
ſuch a ſtand.,in lieu of larges to the ſouldiers,
he drew out an half Crown piece, and ask d
_ them how many pence that was, they an-
'{wered 30. He replyed, for. ſo. much did Fu-
das betray his Maſter, and ſo he depart-
ed. |
And now, that 1n the conrs of this Hiſto-
rical Narration, I have touch'd upon Frarce,
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that nothing almoſt could cend more to the
advantage of that K. then theſe commorions
in England,conſtdering that he was embark'd
in an 4uall war with the Honſe- of Auſtria
and rhat'this Iand did do Spain ſome good
offices ; among other, by tranſport of his
treaſure ro Duokerkin Engliſh botromes,
whereunto this King gave way, and ſome-
times in his own Galeons, which ſ{av'd the
Spaniard neer upon 20, in the hundred, then
it he had ſent it by way of Genoa 3 ſo that
ſom think, though France made ſemblznce
to reſent the ſad condition of her Neigh-
bour, and thereupon ſent-the Prince:of Har-
corr, and the foreſaid Monſieur Befzeure to
compoſe matters, yet the never really in-
tended it,.as being againſt her preſent inte-
reſt and engagements - yet the world thinks
ir much that ſhe ſhold publiquely receive an
Agent from theſe Parlamenteeres, and thar
the French Nobility who were us dto be the
oallanteſt men inthe world to vindicate the
quarrels of diſtreſſed Ladies, are not more
ſenſible of rhe outrages that have bin of-
lerda daughter of France, ſpecially of "_
the greats.
Bur to reſume the threed of my Narrati-
on, the King (and with him, one may fay,
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' England alſo) being thus bought and ſold,
the Parlamenteers inſteed of bringing him to
Weſtminſter, which had put a Period to all
diſtempers,toſs'd him up and downe to pri-
vate houſes, and kept the former Army till
afoot : And truly I thigk chere- was never
Prince {o.abus'd, or poor peeple ſo baffled,
and no peeple but a purblind beſotced pee-
ple wold have ſuffred themſelves to be {6
baffled: for notwithſtanding thac no Enemy
appeer'd in any corner of the Kingdome, yet
above 20900, Tagaroones have. bin kept
cogether ever {ince- to grind the. faces of the
poor, and exhauſt the very vitall ſpirits. of
town and Countrey, and keep them all in 2
perfect ſlavery : Had the Parlament-men,
when the Scots were: gone, brought their:
King in a generous and. frank way (as had
well becom'd Engliſhmen) to fit among
them, and truſted ro him(which of neceſſity.
they muſt do at laſt) as they had gaind 'more
honor far in the world abroad, ſo they had)
_ gain'd more upon his affections then I be+
leeve they will eyer do hereafter.
But to proceed, the King. having bin a;
g00d whe priſoner to the Parlement, the:
Army ſnatch'd him away. from them, and
ſom of the chiefeſt Commanders having
pawn'd
(285)
pawa'd their ſoules unto.him to reſtore him
ſpeedily, in liewthereof they rambled him
op and down tO ſundry places, till they jug-
oled him ar laſt ro that ſmall Ile where now
he is ſurrounded with a gard of ſtrange faces;
and if happly he beginns to take delight in
any of thoſe faces, he is quickly taken our
of his fighe, Theſe harſh uſages hath made
him become all gray and oregrown with hair
{o that he lookes rather like ſom Silvan $4-
tyr then a Soverain Prince : And truly my
Lord the meaneſt (lave in St. Marks gallies
or the abjecs Captit in A/zter bannier is not
ſo miſerable as he in divers kinds, for they
have the comfort of their wifes, children and
trends,they can convey and receive Letters,
ſend Meflengers upon their errands, and
have privat difcours wich any ; all which is
denied ro the King of great Britain, nay che
young Princes his children are not permit--
ted as much as to ask him bleſſing in letter.
I ſo much char if he were not a great” King , 1,
LHR A - _— N
of his paſſions, and hada hearc caſt in on ex- ,4,,
traordinary Mould, theſe preſſures and thoſe
baſe aſperſions that have bin publiquely'caſt
; |} upon him by the Parlemenc.ir ſelf, had bin
: | ere this, and indeed cis the main thing they
enough to have ſent him our of the world
drive
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ht
Iv.
- threnof Holland: and for plundrings, thele
Parliamenteer-Saints -think they may robh
publick account to fatisfie the Kingdom :
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drive at, to torture his braihe, and tear. his}:
very heart ſtrings if they could: ſo rharfſf*
whereas this fooliſh ignorant peeple ſpeakſſd0
ſuch horrid things of our Inquiſition, traly <1
my Lord 'tis a moft gentle wav of pro-*%
ceeding being compir'd to this Kings perſe. pu
cutions. ol 1:
As the King himſelte is rhus in quality of Iſl:
a captif, ſo are all his Subjects becom per-['<
fect ſlaves, they have fool'd themſelfs' inco1
worle ſlavery then Few'or Greek -under the
Ottomans,for they know the bottom of their}?
ſervitude by paying fo many Sulranefſes for
every head ; bur here, people are pur ro4
endleſs, unknown, tyrannical Taxes, beſide}
plundering and Accize, which two words, and
the practiſe of them (with ſtorming of
Towns) they have learnt of their pure Bre:
any that adheres not to-rhem as lawfully as
the Fewes did the Egyptians :"Tis'an unfom-
mable maſſe ' of money 'rheſe Reformer;
have ſquandred in few years, whereof rhey
have often promis'd ana- ſolemnly vored 1
bur as in a hundred things more, ſo in this
precious particular they have diſpens'd with
as. | thell
( 287)
:x(their Votes: they have conſumed more
rfſiceaſure with, pretence to purge one King-
dom, then miglit have ſerved to have par-
ly thas'd rwoy more (as Iam credibly told)
Jrhen all che Kings of England ſpent of the
{public ſtock fince the Saxon Conquelt :
Tbns have they nor only begger'd the whole
jB[(land, bur they have burld ic inte che moſt
.ffcarfull'ſt Chaos of confuſion that ever poor
;Countrey was in; they have torn.in pieces
\«iÞe reines of all Government, trampled up-
+flonall Lawes of heaven and earth, and vio-
y lated the very Dictamens of nature, by ma-
402g Mothers to betray their Sons , and the.
&S0nS their Fathers , but ſpecially. char
Great Charter, which is the Parndedt of all
the Laws and-Liberties -of the free-born
Subject, which at their admiſhon co the
Houſe they are ſolemnly {wern to maintain,
I's corn in flitters : beſides thoſe ſeverall
«(Oath they forg'd themſelts, as the Proteſta-
\$'/07 and Covenant, where they voluntarily
+vear. co, maintain the Kings Honour and
oy Rights, rogerher with che eſtabliſhed Laws
4Fotche Land, 8c, Nowl am cold, thar all
Qs of Parlement here are Lawes, and they
7e carry that Majeſty with them, that no power
+ can ſuſpend or repeal them, but the. ſame
Ti power
(288)
- power that made them, 'which is'che "Kin:
ſicting to full Parlement ; 'theſe mongrel
-Polititians'bave bin fo nocoriouſly impudent
as to make an inferiour Ordiaarnce'ot their
-rodoit, which is pointe-blanck againft' th]
'very fundamentals of rhis Government, and
their own Oaths, which makes me think
thar chere was never ſuch a'petjur'd pack &
wretches upon earth, never ſuch Monſters 9
mankind. | &
- Yerthis ſimple infatuated peeple have'z
Saint-like opinion of theſe Monſters, this ii
fooliſhCitie gards them daily withHorlſe ang
Foot, whereby ſhe may be ſayd to kiffe the M
very ſtones that are thrown ather, and th; || 4*
hand whence they came , which a dog?
would not do - But ſhe falls to fecolle her
ſelf now that ſhee begins tobe pinch's i}:
Trade, and that her Mint is ftary'd; yet'the£
[ ' leading'ft men in her Common-Councell
| care nor: much tor it, ih regard moſt of chem
[| : havelefc traffiquing abroad, finding it's inotg'
eaſte and gainetull way of trading ar 'hom@/”
by purchafing Crown or Church: lands, plun®
| ___ der'd goods, and debrs upon the Publict
| Faith,with Soldiers debenters; thus the SlintsF"
E- of thisTland ture godlineſſe intogaine. ©
3 Truly my Lord, I give the Englith for't bh
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(237)
loſtiNacion, if chey.continue long” rhus/ine®
yer was thera {more palpable oble{ion''of
the-brain,” and a more viſible decay of Reak
fon .iri any race'of men : Ir is a ſore Jude-
{ ment from heaven, that a' people thold not
be more ſenſible how - they” are become
ſlaves to Rebells, and thoſe; moſt of them' the
foumm of the Nation, which is the baſe of
miſejis £ how they ſuffer them to tyrannize
by a meer arbitrary excrajudicial power* o're
their vety ſouls 'and bodies; b're cfietr: very
| lifs and livelihoods how their former tree-
10 dom is turn'd to: fetters, 'Molehills into
As
hel Mountains of grievances, Ship-money inte
Il {ccize, Juſtice inro Tyranny : For nothing -
JE bach bin and-is daily ſo common amiongſt \
; them as imprifonnient without charge, and 4 {
pIcharge wichout an accuſer, condemnation
#[vichout-apparance; and torteitures withour |
conviction. . i peat 7
n | -To ſpeak a lictle more of the King; if all
the infernal fiends had ligud againſt him;
»llthey could not have defign'd ot diſgorged
\ffimore malice : They wold- have laid co his
gcharge his Fathers death, as arrand a lie as
ever was forg'd in hell : they wold rake
1\Fim fore-kaow the inſurreRion in Ireland,”
4P'beras the £pan7ſh Ambaſſador here, and his
| ' (290) |
Confeſlor who is @ very reverend Iriſh-man, | -
told: me; that: he knew no more of it then || þ
| the grand Moor did: they: charge 'him-with | tt
all the bloud of this civil war,;-whberas: they || tc
and their inſtruments were the -firſt-kindlers || {
of ir, and that-firſt prohibited. trade and: ſhut ||
him our of his own Town: They bave inter} || {
cepted and printed his privac Letters trois | dc
Queen, and Hers to him,' (Oh barhbarous || th
baleneſle !) but therin they did: him a. pleas || th
ſure, though:the intent was malitious,: their Þ +
aimmnall-chiogs being ro envenom the heats || vc
of, his peqple trawards-him-3: and.this was;:t I fa
render him a gloriqus and well-below'd Prince, fl fo
3s-likewiſe for making him rich, (all which || gi
they had vow'd to do upon: paſſing the AGF] ba
of Continuance;)} But now-'they have made T!
him poorer then rhe meaneſt of all-his vaſ- bir
fals, they: have. made him. to. have: no-pre- þ lo!
priety in houſe, goods, or Lands, or as: ope | inc
may fay, in his wite and children :: Twas: || ge
ſual tor the tather-to hunt in bis Park my ho
- the. fon. hunted; for his life in the field; /for il to
the wii ':o lie,in; his bedds, while the: busr | of
bagd layed wait to murther bir abroadgthey £.the
have feiz'd upon. and {old his.privat: Hang- £ ms
inss. an&:Paate, yea bis.very _m_ Jew Jac
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ple;and men nobly extracted (as 1a Scotland)
thar do all chis;(for then ic were not ſo much
to be wondred at) but chey are the meaneſt
ſort of Subjects, many of them illiterar Me-
chan'ques, wherof the lower : Houſe 15 fully
ſpeciatly che ſubordinat Committees, who /-
domineer more ore Nobles and Gentry,
then the Parliament Members "themſelts.
their Maſters uſe co do.
:// Touching rhofe few Peers that fit now
voting in the upper Houſe, they may be
faid to be but meer Cyphers,they are grown
fo degenerar as to ſuffer the Commons to
give then the Law, to ride - upon their
backs, and 60 moſt things wirhour, them -
Ther be many thouſand Peritions that have
bin recommended 'by 'thefe Lords to the
lower Houſe, which ate ſcornfully chrown
into corners and never read ; their Meſſen-
vers have vs'd+to dance attendance divers
hours and days before they were vouchſaſed
tobellet in or heard,to the eternal dithonour
ofthoſt-Peers, 'and yet poor ſpirited chings
they teſenriicnot: The Commons now com-
mand all, and though, as I am inform'd,chey
are ſymmon'd thicket by the Kings Original
| Writ but to-copſerr £6 what the King and his
Y 2 Great
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Great Counſel of: Peers (which is che ern
Court. of Parlement) ſhall reſolve upon;
The Commons I ſay are now from Conſenters
become the chiete(t Counſellors, yea Cop-
7roulers of all ; nay fom of this /ower Houſe
fly ſo high as to term. them(elts Conquerors,
and though in all conferences with che Lords
they ſtand bare before them, yet by a_new
way of mix'd Committees they carry them-
ſelts as Colleges : Theſe are the men, that
now have the vogue, and they have made
their Priviledges ſo big ſwoln,, that chey
ſeem to haye quite ſwallowed up both the
Kings Prerogatives, and choſe of the Lords:
Theſe are che Grandees, and; Sages of the
times, though moſt ot them | have but
crack'd braines and crazy fortunes God wat:
Nay ſom of them are ſsch arrandKnaves and
coxcombs, that 'cis queſtionable whether
they more want common honeſty, or. com- ||
mon ſenſe ; nor know no. more what be:
longs to tru policy. then the left leg-of af;
joyat-ſtool: They are grown [o, high a tip-
roes, that they ſeem to ſcorn.an. Ah of Am-f;
. neftia, or any grace from their King, wheras
' ſom of them deſerve to be hang'd as. oft..asſſ
they have hzires upon their heads $4. nor have]
| they any more care 6 of the-coramon ay off:
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Poflind) then "on have of Lapland, ſo they
| inay ſecure their own perſons, and continue
their Power now,Authority is ſweet, though
| itbe in Hell.
| Thus, my Lord, is E»gland now govern'd,
| fo that*ris an eaſie thing to take a proſpect
| of her ruine if (he goes on this pace: The
Scot iS now the ſwaying man» who is the
third time ſtruck into her bowels with a nu-
merous Army : They ſay he hath vowd
never to return till he hath put the Crown
onthe Kings head, the Sceptcy in his hand,
"© and the ſword by his fide 3 5 it he doſo, it will
*F bethe beft thing char ever he did, though
I fom think rthar he will never be able to do
3 England as much good as he hath done: her
dF burr 5 Hehath extremely out-witted the
TI Englith of lace years: And they who were
"the cauſers of his firſt and laſt coming_ in,
"(Eihold co be rhe moſt pernicious Enemies
that ever chis Nation had , for tis probable.
Fthat Germany (viz. Ponterland and Breme)
I*Enill be ſooner free of the Swed, then Eng-
lard of the Scot, who will ſtick cloſe unto
8 tim like a bur, thar he cannor ſhake him off ;
fc is becom already Maſter of the Englith-
ans ſoul,by impoſing a Religion upon him,
>:Yead be may hereafter be maſter of his body.
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Your Eminence knows there is 2 periodi-
call fate hangs over all Kingdoms after ſuch
a revolution of time, and rotation of forrunes
wheele ; the cours of the world hath bin for
one Nation, like ſo many nailes, ro thruſt
out another ; But for rhis }Jation, I obſerve
by conference with divers of the (addeft and
beſt weighaſt men among chem, that the
ſame preſages foretell their ruine as did the
Tfraclites of old, which was a murmuring +
o2inſt their Governors 3 Ic is a long time
chat both Fudpes, Biſhops and privy Conn-
ſellors tave bin mutter'd at, whereof the firſt
ſhold be the oracles of the Law, the other of
the Goſpel, the laſt of Szate- affaires, and that
our judgments (hold acquiefce upon theirs;
Here as I am inform'd , 'ewas common for
evry ignorant cent to arraign his Fadg z; tor
evry puny Cura? to cenſure the B7ſhop ; for
evry ſhallow-brain home-bred fellow ko
deſcant upon the reſults of the Covncell
Table : and this ſpirit of contradition and
contumacy hath bin a long time fomenting
ia the minds of this peeple, infus'd into them
principally, by rhe Puritanicall Fa&ion,
"Touching the ſecond of the three aforeſaid
(I mean Biſhops) they are grown ſo odiou
(principally for cheir large demeanes) among
this: -
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this peeple, asthe 7emplers were of old; and
one may ſay 1t 15a juſt judgtetit fallen upon *
thet, for they were moſt buſy in demalifh-
ing Convents'and Monaſteries, as theſe are ih
deſtroying Cathedralls and Miniſters. ; Bur a-
bove all, it hath-bin obſerv'd that this peeple
hath bit along time rotren-hearted- cowards
the ſplendor of the Cour, the glory of their
King, and che old eſtabliſh'd Government
of the land: 'Tis true there were a few ſmall
leakes ſprung in rh great veſſel of the Sthte;
(and: what veſſel was ever ſo rite but ws
ſubje to leakes *) but thefe 'wiſe-akers tn
ſtopping of one have made a hundred :' Yet
ifthis Kings 'taign were pirallel'd ro that
of Queen Elizabtth's, who wis the greateſt
Minion of a peeple that ever was, one will
find thar ſhe ſtrecct'd rhe Pretogarive much
further $-In ber time as I haye read in! rhg
Latin Legend. of her life, ſom had their
hands 'curoff-for only writing againſt her
matching with the Duke of Anios, others
were hang'd ar Tyburn for traducing her
government $3 ſhe'pardond thrice as many
Roman Prieſts as this King did, ſhe paſſ'd
divers| Monopolies, ſhe kept an Agent ac
-Rome, ſhe ſent her Sergeant at Armes to
Pluck out. a Member then fir irting in the
V4 Houſe
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Houſe of Commons by che- eares, and clape
im i priſons, the call' dthem fawcy "x
to meddle-with her Prerogative, or with the
government of her houſhold,.ſhe mannag'.
all farren affaires, ſpecially. tize -warrs: with:
Ireland ſoly by her privy Counlell, yerthere
was no. murmuring at her raign,and the rea;:
ſon I conceave to be, that there was neither
Scot or Puritan had then any ſtroke in Ting:
Jane, T0
'Yet, for all their diſobedience 2nd grum:
bliogs againſt their Liege Lord the \ King,
this peeple are. exaly obedient 0 their.new:
Mafters of the Houſe of Commons, though:
"—_— a —_a—_—
they, fit there but as their Servants and: en-:
ticle chemſelfs ſo; and alſo. though ig -lieu::
of the (mall ſcrarches which England might:
happily have receiv'd before. (all which the!
King had cur'd) theſe new maſters have:
made ſuch deep oaſhes in her, and given ber:
ſuch deadly wounds char I believe are. ini
curable.
My Lord, I find by my reſearches, ghar.
there are ewo great Idolls.in this. Kingdom :
the greateſt hat ever were,chey are the Pare:
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lament and the Pulpit; tis held High treſon': $'d
to ſpeak againſt che one, and the whole bodyiiMhis
of Religion is nailed unto the other, far there! lat
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| is; no devotion here at-all but preaching,
; | which: God wot is little berter then prating,
"The abufe of theſe two hath bin the fource
of all the diftempers which now: raign +
: | conching the latter, it hath ſerv'd as a ſubyer-
\Erient Engin to prop op the power and -po-
Upularicy of the ficſt 5 theſe malicious Pulpit-.
men breath/ out nothing” thence buc either -
ſedition, ſchiſme or blaſphemy : poor ſhal-
low brain's Scioliſts, they wold queſtion
-Emany things in the old Teſtament, and find
Bapocrypha in'the New : And ſuch is rhe
Eviolence- wherewith the minds of men and
-womenare tranſported towards theſePreach-
"men, and'no'other part of devotion beſides,
that in all probability they will in time take
iN: ſurfer of chem: ſo that give this giddy pee-
oiple line-enough ther will be no need of
"Ycatholigue- Arms to reduce: them ro the A-_
\Fpoſtolick Church, they will in time pave
/Fithe way toi chemſelyes, and be glad ro
;Weturn to Rome to find out a Religion again.
| There was here before, as I am informed,
\ & kind of 'a--face of a Church, there were
"Wome folemaities, venerations and decencics
ſ$dthar a-man might diſcover ſom piety in
his peeple's there was a publick Lyturgie..
bat-in -pitby- Patberical prayers reach'd all
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occaſions; the Sacraments were adminiſtredJ;ag
with ſom reverence, their Churches: werf me
kepr neat and comly z- bur this naſty race offij1;
miſcreants havenorhing ac allof ſweerneſle, thi
- of piety and devotion in them *cis all ratn'dfſiry
to a fatuous kindof zeal after more /earnizy; [He
as if Chriſtianity had no ſobriery,conliſtenre}of
or end of knowledg ar all: Thefe'filly chings, lee
to imitat the Apoſtles time, wold haye- theſſpai
fame- form of diſcipline ro govern wholelme
_ Nations, as it did a chambertull of men-inf}]m
the infancy of the Church, they wold makefye
the {ame coat ſerve our Savious at 30,yeers lin
which fitted him at three : Tis -incredibleſtey
how many ugly ſorts of hereſies 'they dailyſſc"
hatch, but they are moſt of .chem - old:'oneÞAn
newly furbiſh'd. 5 they all relate to AerissS on}
a. perfect hater of Biſhops, becauſe: he dra
could not þe one -tfimſelf, _Fhe-two Sel 1
aries ' which {way - moſt, are the- Pro ſors
byterians and Independents, the Pre, byteria
is a ſpawn of a Puritan, and the 1#dependinſ1
a ſpawn of the Presbyterian: there's bat on
bop 'ewixcthe firſtand a Few, and bur half
bop 'cwtxt the other and an 1»fidell, they at the
both oppoſir to Monarchy and Hierarchy Th
and the latter wold have no Goyerniment Pn!
all, bur parity and promiſcuous confaliong on
_ arace of creatures: fir, only to inhabit Hell F Thi
andy"
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' (299)
edI:;d one of the fruits of this blefſed Parle-
rf rnenc, and of theſe two Sectartes is,thart they
off ave made more Jewes and Achieſts then T
& think rhere is in:all Europe beſides; but
diruly, my Lord, I chink che judgments of
#E Heaven were never fo viſible. in any. parr
oof the Earth, as they are now here, for
$Bthere 15' Rebe! | againſt Rebell , Houſe a>
VJ painſt Houſe, Cirrie againſt Army, Parle-
ieFment againſt Scor, but cheſe two SeRaries,
| Imean the Presbyterian and Independent who
were the fire-brands that putthis poor I-
land firſt in a flame, are now in moſt deadly
*F teud one againſt che other, ;tbough they both
concur in this to deſtroy government :
And if the'King Jnr rtme _—_—_ to look
-$-only upors them, they wou quickly ban ,
Ne fam, and deſtroy one another. :
x But indeed all Chriſtian Princes hold: obs | BEE
14} ſerve the motions and:ſucceflles of: rhefe'two
Aj uniucky Incendiaries, for if they ſhold ligue
"together again, (as chey have ang plaid faſt
KF and looſe one with another) and prevail here,
'Fthis land wold nor terminar- their defigns,
'T they wold- puzzle: all the world beſides.
F their Preachmen ordinarily cry out in the
Pnlpir,” ther1s a great work to be done up-
"FJ on earth, for the reforming ail mankind, and
. They are appointed by Heaven to be tick
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chief! Inſtruments of bringing it abbytÞ®*"
They have already-bia ſo bafie abroad, thi”
(with vaſt ſommes of money) -rhey: broughit like
the Swed upon the Dare, and'the very Saya:
ges upon the Engliſh Cavaliers in Yirginia4]*7
and could they conftederat' with Tk ; orfi©s
Tartar, or Hell ir (elf againſt them, theyſſ'*3
wold do it: they are moaſtrouſly puff'd ypſj"®
wich pride, that they ſtick not to call them
felfs Conquerors, and one of the chief rins-
leaders of 'them, an ignorant home bredj*m
kind of Brewer, was not aſhamed to vantit
publiquely in the Commons Houſe, thatif}*i9
he had bur20000, men, he wold undercake
to march to Conſtantinople, and pull the or £19%
t0omauy Emperour out of the Seralia, ©
Touching the other grand-Idoll the Par- $7
lement, 'tis true that the primitive conftitu-N
tion of Parlement in. this: Hand was'a
wholeſom piece of policy, becauſe it kepr a plur
200d correſpondence, and clos'd all ruptures
*wixt the King and his peeple , -but this vt
ehing they call Parlement now, may rather
be term'd 2cantle of one, or indeed a'Cor-
wenticle of Schiſmariques, rather than a great
Counſell; *cis like a kind'ot headleſs Mon- ><
ſter, or ſom-eſtropiated carkas ; for ther is
neicher King nor Prelar, nor ſcarce the -
vent
( 299)
3 rench part of Peers and Commons, no not
4 jhe cwelfch parc fairly elected 5 neverchele(s |
: Bihey draw. the peeple, ſpecially this Ciry, *
F ike ſo many. ſtupid animalls, to adore them.
JI Yetchough chis inſticution of; Parlement
F te a wholſom ching in 1c ſelf, 'there is in my
jucgment a great incongruity in one particu-
rs and I believe ic hach big the cauſe of
oInoſt diſtempers;,icis, Thatthe Zwgeſſes are
more in number. than the X»/ghts of the
hires 5 for the Knights of the Shires, are
commonly Gentlemen well born, and bred,
+F:nd vers d in the Laws of the Land, as well
ces torren Governments, (divers. of chem) but
«the Burgeſſes of Towns are ; commonly
:{ir2deſmen, and being bred in Corporations
[they are moſt. of chem incligning- to Purica+
Yriſm, and conſequeantly-ro popular, Gavern-
ment . 5 . Theſe, Burgeſſes exceeding -the
Inights in number, carry all before chem by
plurality of Voices,.and ſo puzzle all : And
now that. I have, wentianed Corporations, I
muſt tell your: . Lordſhip; thar-; the
greateſt ſolceciſm inthe policy. of this
'Ekingdom.,. .is.,the number. ' of them s
NY <Pecially chis.., monſtrous City , which
{5 compos'd of nothing els but of Corporati-
#5; and the greateſt errorsthar this King,
: | ſpecially
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| {302 )
ſpecially his Father, committed, was'to FM |
fer chis Townto ſpread her wings {o wide "
for ſhe bears no proportion” with the - bigne & FR
of the Iland,but may fit a Kingdom thrice ag 0
ſpacious ;- ſhe engroſſeth and dreins all-rhgl,
wealth and: ſtrength of the: Kingdom + ſe "2
thar I cannot 'compare Eng/aud more profilhe
perly than to! one of 'our” Cremone' geeſe Yolo
where the cuſtorn is ta-farcen only the heart yp
bar in doing ſo the whole body 'g groneſhpi
lafhk. =
TO draw: wo concluſion; This Nation
i £coft? fad and deſperit condition; thayh
they deſerve-to: be pittied; and- preſerved] bos'
from i finking, and: having caſt the prefer mer
Ttate of ctiings and all intereſts i into an equi
balatice, T find, my Lord, ther be three way it
v9 do 1 it, 6ne good, and two bad. - =
-=1.'I, Thefitt'of the bad ones is the Sao, k
which] is one 'of the {courges! of heaven, £ ok
ſpecially the Civil ſword. by
- 12, Thelecond bad one's the Treaty whid Wc
they now offerthe King'in thar ſmall land
"wher he hath bin kept Captit ſo long, (a
which quality the ,world'will., account hin Ne
{ill while he is decain'd rhere) and by thiSrot
Treaty to bind him as faſt as chey can, aFvir
got truſt him ar og LI | = 'Fihar
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4/3. The good way is,in a free confiding
Shizve way: (Engliſhmen-like) co- ſend for
eFibeir King ro. London, where Ciry and
4YCountry thold Perition him ro fammon a
tle and free fall Parlement, which' he may
llio 25 juſtly as ever he did thing in his life,
Wieſe men having infring'd as welt alt 'the
efefſentiall Ptiviledges of Parlement, as eve-
Sy puntillio of ir, for they have often' riſen
eFip in a confufion without adjournment, they
-'Jþid rwo Speakers at once, they have' mot
erjurioufly and beyond al} imagination be-
utayed the truft boch King and Countty re-
eFÞos'd in them; fubverted the very ſanda-
:Fnenrals of all Law, and plung'd the whole
ukngdom- in: this bottomiteſs gulf of eala-
i Yaices: another Patlement may hapty do
- Toin:good rothis languiſhing: Ifland, and cure
14er convulſions; bur fot rhefe men rhac ar-
Fogat toithemielts che name of Parlement
by 2 local puntillio only becauſe they never
(Bird from rhe place where they have: bin
anVepr'-rogether by meer force) I find them
(4Þy cheir actions to be fo pervers, ſo irratio-
-
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ui and refraQory, ſo far given over to. re-
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ſoar ſenſe, ſo- franghr wich rancor; with
ag irceconciteable; malice and'rhirſt of bloud,
; Fiat Zng/and may well deſpaire to be: heaFd
i, FIRE | - | by
(302)
ouity. ſouls, and; gawl'd conſciences, tt
free Parlement. . »-:.-
- Touching the King he
more in all his anſwers by ſtrengrh of reſon,
chough he have no foul breathing to con-
fulc withall, bur his own Genius: he gains
wonderfully upon: the hearcs and opinions
his peeple, and as the Sun uſeth.co appeat
regard of the interpoſition of certain mete-
ors 'ewixt'the eye of the beholder and the
obje&, ſo this King being thus. o're-clouds
ed and declined, ſhines far more [glorious in
the eyes of his people ; and<ertainly theſe
high morall vertues of conſtancy, courage
and wiſdom come from above; and no wons
der, for Kings as they are elevared above all
other peeple and ſtand upon higher ground,
they ſooner receive the inſpirations of hea-
ven;
by:ſach Phlebotomiſts,or Quack-ſalvers;beſ}
ſides they are fo full of (cruples, apprehenſif;
ons, and jealouſtes proceediog from black
they will do nothing but chop :Logic with
their King; and ſpin out time to continag:
their power, and evade puniſhment, whict
they chink-is unavoidable it cher thold be.#
comports himſel 1;
with: an admired .temper'd £quantmity, « |
invades and ore-maſters -.them\, more and}
bigger in winter, and at his: declenfion' inf:
OE SOOT: |
ef-yert 4; nerrdoth-be only by Niength of reaſon
dlt$:00t- Wrhem,; bur he woots then by peri-
Oo rtenelſ@andmanfnecude s/ asthe Gentleman
of Paris who'having an Ape in His bouls'/thae'
Whid'taken hisonly child: aur of the ctadley
&:20d-dragged him aup'to the ridge'- of 'the
houſe, the'Parent with ruthfulheart:ichang-\
:Fiedrlie Ape byitair wordsnnd other blindfh- ©
© ments ro bring him. foftly- dvwþpihvhich-he:
dds England may be {aid to be now juſt
FJ:opon ſuch a precipice, ready, to haye her.
J br2ines daſh'd out; and Fhope theſe men will
fiot be worſe natur d chen that brute animal,
bit will ſave hers © : |
Thus bave I given your Zm7:xenxce a rough
of account of the ſtate of this poor and pitritul-
ly deluded peeple, which I will perfe& when -
OY 1thall come to your preſence, which I hope |
will be before rhis Autumnal Equinox, I =
thoughe to have ſojourn'd here longer, bur
thac T- am grown weary of che clime, for [
my fear:there's che other rwo ſcourges of hea-
e Ffen that menace this IſFind, 1 mean the fa-
elnwz and peſtzlence, eſpecially this Czty, for
- F:btir prophanneſs, rebellion, and facriledge:
LY lthath bin a talk a great while whether 4»-
$i Chrift become to the world or no, 1 am
Plre' 4nti-Feſms, which is worſe, is among
y * £215
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this-people, for they hold all veneration,
hog voluntary proceeding from 'the in-
ward motions of a ſweet devoted ſoul, and
caufing anoutward genufleRion, to be ſy-
erftitious, inſomuch that one of the Syno-
Jical Saints here printed and pubiſhed a
Book enticling it againſt Feſu Worſhip.
_ So: in the. profoundeſt poſture of reves
rence I kifle-your veſt,as being,
Landon chis 1 2, of
: Auguſt,1647 .
4 My Lord,
Your Eminences moſt. humbly devoted,
NOGTURNAL
PROGRES
Irs PBRA MBULATION
Of moſt”
COUNTREYS.
"IX
[CHRISTEN DOM;
*[Perform'd in one night by ftrenprhi
of the Imagipation 3
Which progreſfſe terminats in theſe
North-Weſt Iles ,
Y 2 _ And declares the woſul Confilione
© TRY are involy dat preſent.
Melt it.
wry
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CNS INN
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The progreſs of the Soul by an
uſuall DRE AM.
ECT was inthe dead of along Win-
{+ ter night, when no eyes were o-
FA BA pen but Watchmens and: Centi-
2p We rels, that I was fallen ſoundly a-
£ > ſleep, the Cinq-ont- Ports were
- I hat up cloſer then uſually, for my ſenſes
« vere fo trebly lock'd, that che Moon, had
- ſhe deſcended from her watry Orb, might
' have done much more to me then ſhe did to
: | Endymion when he lay ſnoaring upon the
\- brow.of Latmas Hill ; nay, (be it ſpoken
* Pyichour prophaneneſle)if a rib had bin taken
+ Your of me that night, to have made a new
- (mo... of a woman, I ſhold hardly have
Yet, though the Couſin German of death
-* bad ſo ſtrongly ſeiz'd thus upon the exterior -
:1Þparts of this poor Tabernacle of fleſh, my in-
Frard parts were never more aGit, and fuller
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of employments chen they were that night,
Pit imaginibus formil ; fu acibey adftar.
' Morpheus,& warts Gai nj vnultibus ora,
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Methoughtmy foul made a Glly abrond c
into the world, and ferch'd a vaſt compas; || »
ſhe ſeem'd ro ſoar up and flice the air'to þ| a
croſs ſeas,to clammer up huge Hills, and ne- | L
ver reſted till ſhe had arriv d ar the Antips- | fl
des + Now ſom of the moſt jydiciovus Geo- | Þ'
metricians and Chorographers hotd thae” the || f
whole Maſs of the Earth being round like || h;
the reſt of her fellow Elements, ther be pla: I bi
ces, and poizing parts of the Continent,ther
be Peninſulas ,Promontories and Ilands upon | Ri
the other fate of the Earth' that correſpond D
and concenter with all choſe Regions and Ve | te!
that are upon this ſaperficies which we read, || lo
Countries that fymbolize with chem in qu thi
lities, in temperature of air and clime\ a5} m:
yell as in nature of ſoil ; The Inhabiranes a) the
ſo of thoſe places which are ſo- perpendicy-J M:
larly oppoſit, do ſympathize one wich ano-J To
ther in diſpoſition, complexions and humors,
though cheAſtronomers wold have theirEaRth |
to' be our Weſt, and-fo all things ce «era
in point of panricn, which #31ſ1on of ' theſſ:
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Heaven is ohely #4» inſtXncion; /
Bur to give ati account of the ſtrange pro-
orefle my' ſoul tnade thar night 5 the firſt
Country the lighced on was a very low flat
Country,and it was ſuch an odde amphibi-
ous Country, being ſo indented up and down
with Rivers and arms of the ſea, that I made
a queſtion whether I ſhold call it Water of
Land ; yer though the Sez be invited and y-
ſher'd in into;ſom places, he is churliſtly
pen'd out in ſon other, ſo that though he
foam ahd ſwell, ahd appear as high Walls
hard-by, yet they keep him out, maugre all
his roaring and ſwelling. b-
As I wandred up and downin this Watry
Region, I might behold from a ſtreight Jong
Dike wheron I ſtood, a ſtrange/kind of For-
teſt, for the trees mov d up and down ; they
look'd afar off as if they had bin blaſted by
thunder z for they hadno leafs at all ; bur
making a nearer approach unto them,I found
they were a nombetrleſle company of Ship-
Maſts, and before them appear'd a great
Town (Amſterdam) incorporated up and
down with Watet s As I mus'd with my ſelf
upon the fight of all this, Iconcluded,rthat the
/e lobabitants of that Country were notable
1eY induſtrious people, who coula give Law fo
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fo the angry Qceqn,and occupie thoſe places
where the great Leviathan old ramble and
rake his paſtime in; As my thought ran thus,
I met with a man, whom I conjetur'd'to be
'rwixt a Marchant and a Mariner, his ſalura-
tion was ſo homely ; the air alſo was ſo fog-
gy, chat merhought it ſtuck like cobwebs
in his Muſtachos z and he was fo dull in
point of motion, as if the hlaud in his veines
had bin half frozen : I began co mingle
words with him, and to expoſtulac ſomthing
.about rhat Country and people ; and chen]
found a great deal of down-right civiliciesin
him : He told me that they were the only
men who did miracles of late years; Thoſe
innumerable piles of ſtones you ſce . before
you in ſuch comly neat frabriques, is 2 place
(ſaid he) that from a Fiſh- Market in effeR is
come to be one of the oreateſt Marts in this f
part of the world, which hath made her (wel
chrice bigger thei: ſhe was 50. years ago;
and as you behold this floating Forreſt of
Maſts before her mole; ſo if you could ſee
the foundations af her houſes, you ſhold. ſec
another great Forreſt, being rear'd from un-
| der-ground upon fair piles of timber, which
if chey change to fi nk in this Marſby ſoil, we
haye an art ro ſcrye, chem up again. We
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have for 70. years and above without any in-
certniſffion, except a ſhort-liv'd truce that
once was made, wraſtled with one of the
| ereateſt Potentates upon Earth, and born-up
ſtoutly againſt him, gramercy oyr twa next
neighbour Kings, and their Reaſon of State,
with.the advantage of our ſituation. We
have fought our ſelfs into a free- State, and
now quite our of that ancient allegeance we
ow'd him ; and though we pay twenty times
more in taxes of all forts then we did to him,
yet we are contented - We have turn'd zyar
F.into a Trade, and that which uſeth ro beggar
others, hath benefited us: Beſides, we have
bin and are ſti)l the rendevous of moſt dif-
contented Sabje&ts, when. by the motions
of unquiet conſciences in points of Religion,
or by the fury of the ſword, they: are forc'd
t0 quit their own Countreys,who bring their
arts of Manutacture, and moveables, hither s
laſomuch that our Lombards are full of their
goods, and onr banks ſuperabound. with
their gold and felver which they bring bither
In ſpecte. |
To ſecure our felfs, and cut the Enemy
more work, and to engage our Contederats
in a war with him, we have kindled fires
In every corner, and now that they are to-
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gether by the Eares, we bave bin contenitf{ir
lately, being long wood thereunto, ro makeſloo
a peace with that King ro whom we once ac;fmai
knowledged vaſſalage z which King our offfeic
a heighr of ſpirit, hath ſpent 500, rimesſſteſe
more upon us for our reduction, then Allſtrez
_ ont Country is worth ; But now he hath biaſſof
well contented to renounce and abjure allſiton
claimes and rights of Soverainity over us;me:
In ſo much, that being now without an ene{4 fir
my, we hope in a ſhort time to be maſters offimet
all the comerce in this part of the world, and[ gu
roeat our Neighbours out of trade in theinſhad
own Commodities : We fear nothing butſ}ftec
that exces of Wealth, and a ſurfer of eaſſam
may make us careles and breed quarrells 2Jſpi
mong our felfs, and that our Generall, be-Þaan
ing married to a great Kings daughteyou
may you
Here he ſaddenly broke the threed -offfiuc|
his diſcourſe, and got haſtily away, being£Sir,
haul'd by a ſbip that was ſailing hard byſſcar1
Hereupon my ſoul took wing again, andſſ the!
cut her way through that foggy condensthe
aire, till ſhe lighted on a fair ſpacious, clear] fur;
Continear, a generous and rich Soile mant-ſÞ tha!
led up and downe with large woods, where,ſſ one
as I rang'd to and fro, I might {ce _ un
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n ire Houſes, Townes, Palaces and Caftles,
kelllookiag like ſo many ' Carkaſes, for no hu-
mane ſoul appeard inthem._z; methoughtI -
offffeic my hearc melting withia me in a fofc
exfheſentment of the caſe of ſo eallant a Coun-
alftrey, and as I ſtood art amaze, and in a kind
infotaſtoniſhmenc, a goodly perſonage makes
ltowards me, whom both for his comport-
;Fmenr, and countenance, I perceivd to be of
el: finer mould chen thac companicn I had
offimer withall before: by the trace of his looks
i Izueſſed he might be ſom Nobleman thar
had bin ruin'd by ſom diſaſter: having aco-
i fted him with a fitting diſtance, he began in
ſez maſculin ſtrong winded language tull of
1 aſpiracions and rough collilton of Confo-
4Jaancs, to tell me as followeth : Sir, I find
{jou are a ſtranger in this Countrey, becauſe
you ſtand ſo paſt at the devaſtations of
ſuch a fair piece of the Continent,then know
Sir, decauſe I. beleeve you are curious to
arry away with you the cauſes thereof, char
theſe ruchfull objzeRs which you behold, are
the effes of a long lingring war, and of the
fury of the Sword, a cruencous civill War
*J that hath rag'd here above thirty yeares :
one of the grounds of it- was the infortunate
| undertaking of 2 Prince, who liv d not -
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offin an affluence of all earthly felicity ; h&
had the greateſt Laay.ro his wife, the .be(f
purſe of money, the faireſt Stable of horſe}
and choiceſt Library of books of any othef}”.
of - his neighbour Princes, But being bf"
deſperat and aſpiring counſells put upon i
Kingdom, while he was catching at the ſhi,
dow of a Crown, he loſt the ſubſtance of all;
his own ancient poſſeſſions : by the manyſl”;
powerfull alliances he had (which was the
cauſe he was pirched upon) the fewd con-J
tinued long ; for among others a Northers \þ
King cook. advantage to ruſh in, who did 1
world of miſchiefs, but in a few yeers tht}.
Kinzs and Hee found their graves in their},
own ruins neer upon the ſame time ; but,
now, may heaven have due thanks for it,
there is a peace-concluded, a peace which
hath bin 14. long yeers a moulding, and will
I hope, be thorcly pur in execution; yet 'cisſh
with this fatall diſadvantage, that the Cid Ni.
Northern people, beſides a maſle of ready
money we are to give them, are to have;
firme footing, and a warm neſt ever in this.
Countrey hereaſter, ſo that T fear we ſhall.
hear from chem too often -:+ upon theſe:
words this noble perſonage fetch'd a deep.
ligh, bur in ſuch a generous manger that he
ſeemd
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-ſrem'd to break and check ir before it came
& alfe forth: |
- Thence my ſoul raking her flight o're di-
"Fers huge and | horrid cacuminous moun-
"Fines (the Alpes) arlaſt I found my ſelf ina
Treat populous Town (Naples) but her
ÞÞvildings were: miſerably battered up and
"own, ſhe had a world of Palaces, Gaftles,
FConvents and goodly Churches - as I ſtep-
Þed out of curiofity into one of them, upon
"She Weſt fide there wasa huge Grate,where
& creature all in white beckned at me, ma-
"Ring my approach to the Grate, Ifound her
"to be a Nun, a lovely creature ſhe was, for I
; Fcould nor diftinguith which was whiter, ber
Rive or her habir, which made me remember
"Kthough in a dream my ſelf) that ſaying, 1f -
* BDreams 4nd wiſhes: had been tru, there had not
ten found 4 iru maid to make'a Nun of, ever
*\Wfnce 4 Cloyſter d life-began firſt among women ;
"Wl asked her the reaſon how ſo many ugly
Eievaftations ſhold befall ſo beautifull a Ci-
"#7, ſhe in a dolorous gentle tone, and ruth-
"Full accents,! the reares trickling down bet
*Feteeks like ſo many pearles, (ſuch pearly*
- Feares that wold have diſfſoly'd a Diamond).
Wobb'd" out unto me this ſpeech : Gentle
lr, *cis Far beyond any expreflions of _
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and indeed beyond humane jmagination-wliu
conceive the late calamities which-haye becfuſ
fallen his faire though. infortunat Cizy; au
pernicious popular Rebellion broke out hereto
upona ſudden into moſt. horsid barbariſmesdhis
a Fate that hangs over, moſt rich populyino
places that ſwim ia, luxe and plenty ;/ buyyt
rouching the grounds thereof, one mayfayiivet
thar rebellion entred into. this; Ciry, as/finl-$
firſt entred into. the world by an, apple 5 Foofjut
our K:ng now in his great. extremines avink ba
Þ»
almoſt halfe the world, banding;againd bieyjou!
and putting but a {mall rax upon:a baskieffiti
. ef fruit.co. laſt only far, a. timez:chis fruinſpad,
24x: did put.the pecples 48#th.ſor160 edge; thidffafa
ic made. then, gyſh againſt. the: Govendiſile:
ment,and ruſh imo Armes4 but 'chey'\de[-1.
_ ſenſible now of their own folfies, for 1b ebintfiflic
© hever any place ſuffered maore.im ſo- fhvat' Math
time: the ciyilkcombuſtions abroad im otliaſias,
Kingdomes may be. ſaid roi be but firxlliford,
ſquibs compar'd to thoſe bptzid fakes of finfeth
which: have.rag'd here, agd:attuch adoe welat
had to keep our Yeſtall fix fret from: vie falfipo!
ry: of it: in leſſe then-the'r evolution of iÞ*r,
yeerit conſuin'd; above. tourſcore: thoufandffd |
foules within. the walls-of this: Cioy's (Bore.
Us not the. tir{t, time af faty, that rhis buſſuiin
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offfurious fooliſh peeple hath ſmarted for their
eFlſarreRians and inſolencies, and that this
-afſnad horſe hath o'rethrown his Rider, and
reWiawn a worle upon his back ; who inſtead
5&2 ſaddle, put a pack-ſaddle and Panniers
$008 him : but indeed the voluprucuſacfſe
uitbis peeple was grown ripe for the judge=
"cat of heaven. | . T-
io -She- was then beginning to. expoſtaulac
which me abour the ſtate of my Country; and
Shad a. mighty mind to ſatisfie her, for L
* ge mat oven with-her =_ re=-
aition of as ſtrange things, bat the Lady 4-
ade calling: 5 away, ſhe. departed inan
adſitior, obedience feem'sd ro be ther fo.pre=
wind pundual. 47.
keſſ-1 Reex'd my courſe thence through a moſt
nS6icious: Country teanother City thac lay
Fathe yery boſom of the'Sea, (Fewur) the
$45 at firſt; nothing els. bur a: kind of poſie
aiifde-up: of dainty green: Hillocks, tied to-
inſether by above: 400. bridges, and ſo coa-
weeilated:into 2 curious City. though ſhe be
vFpous'd ro; Neptune very ſolemnly: once eyry
f-aſ*er, yet ihe (till reſerves her maydenhead,
ilhd bears the:ticle-af the Yirgin. Ciryin thac
Joc of rhe-world: 3 Bur I found her tugging
hanly with a huge Giant that: wold raviſk
i HR her s
2 .. Grs)
. hers He hath ſhrewdly ſer on her skirts, and} 1:
.agreat ſhame ir is, -thar ſhe is not now aſh} «|
ed by her Neighbours, and that hey thold] ;
© be together by the ears when they (hold ad] þ
ſo neceſſary a work, conſidering. how. thaff x
oreat:Giamt is their common .Enemy, and] te
hath larely vow'd ever 'yeers wars againſ dr
her; ſpecially confidering, char if he comed] 9
once'to raviſh her, he will quickly »4jx ker vr
ſaid Neighbours,' She (co her bigh honorbdf tm
it ſpoken) being their only rampart againlif þ4
_ theincurſion of the ſaid Giant, andby conſel is,
quence their greateſt ſecurity: +... m
- From this Meideg City, mee thought; the
was in a trice carried over. along gulf, and {df wit
chrough a Midland Sea, 1into.another KingY wa
dom, (Spain) where I felt: che Clime how ar
by ſome Degrees 2 rough-hew' ſoile; fo
the moſt part, it was full of craggy barred
hills ; bur where there were valleys andy:
rerenough, the country was. .extraerdinanl
* fruicful, whereby .narure{ir ſeems)-made he
2 compenſation for the ſterility of the reſt
Yet . notwithſtanding the hardſhip of: c<i
ſoyl; 1 found her full of Abbeys,.'Moaafteffltha
ries, Hermitages, Convents, Churches, andſſrall
other places of devotion; {as I roy'd theres
- while, I encountred a graye-mats in Jong
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black cloak, by rhe faſhion whereof, and by
the brimms of his har, I perceived him to be
Id aFeſuit , Iclos'd with him, and queſtion'd
Id him abour that Country: He told me the
King ot that Coutitry was the greateſt Po-
rentat of that part of the world; and, to
x draw power to a greater unity, they of our
Order could be well contented; thar he were
priverſall Head over Temporalls; becatiſe tis
FJ tnoſt probable to be effefed by him, as we
have already one univerſall Heat over Spi#i-
trafs - This is the Monark of the Mines, 1
mean of Gold and Silver, who furniſhes all
1 the world, but moſt of all his-owh enemies
oF with mony, which mony foments all che
4 wars in this part of the world: Neyer did any
earthly monark thrive ſo much in ſo ſhort 2
oy tract of time, Bur of late yeers he hath beeg
ey 1l-fayouredly ſhaken by the revolr and tictef
a4 deteRtion of rwo ſorts of Subjects, who are
WF now in actual arms againſt him on both fides
&f of him ar his own doors. Ther hath bin alſo 4
bY long deadly feud*twixr the next tramonitan
Ky Kingdom. (Frazce)and him; though the 9:
ethic rules there be his own ſiſter; an unnatu-"
ad rall odious thing: Bur it feems God Al-
ed nighty hath a quartel of late yeers wich all
oy earthly Potencars ; for in fo ſhort a times
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ther never happen'd ſuck ſtrange ſhocks arid || ©
revolutions : The great Emperour of Z#4#- |
9/4 hath bin outed, he and all his children || 6
by a petty companion: The King of China, |
agreater Emperour than he, hath loſt-al: || th
moft all that huge Monarchy by the incurfi- J *
on of the Tartar, who broke ore the wall I
upon him : The grand Twrk hath bin ſtran- | 3
pled, with 30, of his Concubines ; The Em- Þ| an
Perour of Muſcovy hath bin content to beg || #N
his life of his own yaſſals, and to ſee before || th
his face. divers of his chief Officers hack'd to || ft
Pieces, and their heads cut off and ſteep'din iſ ©
ſtrong water, to make them burn more Þf 12a
bright ia the market place« Befides the #-ÞÞ
bove mentioned, this King hath alſo divers | Sir
enemies more, yet he bears up againſt them | Po!
all indifferently well , though with infigit | 0b!
exPence of treaſure, and the Church, ſpeci-
ally our Society, hath ſtuck cloſe unto him'in iſ a
theſe his exigents: whence may beinferr'd, || fit
that let men repine as long as they will &F
the poſleſſions of che Church, they are che bif
anchors to 4 State in a ſtorms, and in time
-need to preſerye it from; linking ; beſades,
acts of charity wold be quice loſt amoty
men, did not the wealch of the Church ket]?
life ia them : Hereupon drawiag age fn |
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of Beads From under his claak, be began;to
, | 5kme of my..Religion; Erokd him I hada
| Jong jourmy £0 go, 10 thatbconld avt Nay tÞ
wait gn him longer; to we parted, and me
; wg I was' very g glad C9) o be ri otinm *
, | we |
| |: My foul chen inade acer fig: over an
. | Afetably -of hideous. high hills, {(#yrencys)
andlighred ander anorher Clime; on 2 rich
nd capian\ Country (France) tekemblin?
the fortn ofa Lozenge, bur me thought, 1
\ | nevet Gonfo many poor peeple in ary lifes i
1 | zncountted a Peſan, and asked/hiin what the
: | reaſon was, chat cher fliold'be fo much py>rrly
.jna County. wher ther wasiſo much pteany.:
Sir,they keep the: Commonalty- poor 1n1/pure þ.
policy here, for being a peeple; as"the world
dbletves:us 10 be; that are more, wot"
thay others, iatid that love vatiery-/ and
chabge; if we- wete-- ſuffered robe pimper'd
nichavealch, weaxwold ever and anon rife up
in cumuls, "and {o this- Kingdom ſhold ne-
rer be quiet; but ſubje& to *areſtine broils,
andſo to the hazatd of any invaſion: Bue
s, | ther was of latea devilliſh Cardinal, whoſe
pl 949-0%7 being 28 ſanguin as his habit, and
pl norking- upon the weaknes of his Mater,
ic ach toe v5 not only poor; but fark beg-
off: Th oars,
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Pars, and we are like to continue ſo by an e-
ternal war,wherein be hath plung'd this poor || +
:Kingdom , which war muſt be maintained || :4
-with our very vital ſpirits : but as 'dejeRed
.and indigent as we are, yet upon the death || 4
of that ambitious Cardinal, we bad riſen ap || 4
azainſt Thi, who hath the Vogue now, (wich | U
whom-he hath lefc his: principles) had- nor || Þ:
the fearful example of our next tranſmarin (| 1/
Weſtern neighbours (the Zngliſh);and the || [*
knowledg we have ofa worſe kind of flaye- | wt
ry, of thoſe endles arbitrary taxes; and hor- | or
rid _confuſions they have foobl'd- themfelks || thi
lately into, utterly deterr'd us, though--»e | wa
have twenty times more reaſon'to "riſe. hea] ſer
everthey had : yer our great- City (Pard) Mic
hach ſhew'd her teeth; and gnaſh'd them ill: {ib!
fayouredly. of late, but we find ſhe + hath reac
drawn water only for her own Mill, wefare Ct
lictle the better, yet we. hope it will con-ll &
duce to peace; which hath bilo long in- J- |
Sitation. |
T cannot remember bow I parted. i reve!
thar Peaſan, bur in an inſtant] was; landed
upon a [arge Ifland, and methoughr;. twat
the temperat'ſt Region I had binin all chef
while (England;) the heat of the Sun ther ifFravi:
Ef) harmleſs as bis light, 'the vnonlly! Lay irch
- FeÞive.
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are 2s wholſom ther as the morning dew z the
-Dog-daies as innocuous as any of thei two
Equizoxes, As I rang'd to and fro-thar fair
Jfland;:I-ſ{pyed a buge City (Zondon)-whoſe
lengch did far exceed her latirude, bur ne:-
ther for length or latirnde_ did ſhe ſeem ro
bear any politicall proportion - with thar
1ſand: ſhe look d, methought, like the Fe-
{x;ts hat: whom I "had mer withall before; -
whoſe brimms were bigger chen che- crown,
or like a peticoat, whole fringe was longer
then the body.. - As I did caſt my eyes up-
wards, methought I diſcerg'da ſtrange 'in-
ſcriprion'i in theaire which hung juſt over the
midſt of that Ciry;writtenin ſuch -huge- vi-
ible charaRers, +thati any one might have.
read'1 its: ralwades chis-: woe beto the vue
1 [2 RACE
» Hereupon. 2 ngrcnd: Biſhop preſented
timfelf ro'my- view; his gray haires, and
<prave YpeR ſtruck/in me an exctaordinary:
ſirverence'of him : ſo performing thole:com-
iÞlements which were ficting, | asked- him
$fthe 'condition of the place; he ina ſub---
eYniſs (ad-cone, 'with clouds -of- melancholy:
ir Faving vp and down his looks, told mey-
Þir chis IfMand-was reputed few years fince-to:”
reve bin inthe complereſt condition'ot hap-
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pineſs.of agy: part on earth; intamueh that
(he; was xePin'd at ;for-hes proſperity and
peace by all ber neighbours who were
plung'din war round about her, but now ſhe
1s fallen into as deep a gulf of miſery, and
ſervitude, 45 ſhe was: in a height of. telicity
& fieedom before: Touching'the grounds of
this change, I cannor.impnte it to. any other
then to. lurter of happineſs 3, now, here 4
no {urfet ſo dangerous as that of happineſe:
Ther are uct horrid. divifjons here, thax ii
they were @ f00g.in;hell, -they were able to
deftroy the Kingdom of Satan ;;argly; Sit,
ther arg-cfep'd im mote opinians anz@Rg 1
about mares, ot:Religion, then the Pagans
had of,oldr.ot the Surmuy bomyn, :which
Farrg faigh, were 399..the underſtandings of
Poor men were never fo puzzled and ,&-
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polit powers (King ang 'Parlemrert ); Was
ſwayed. here ia a king of equality 1636 peep'e
knew not whom to obey;| many ghouſands
complyed. with -borh, as.che men.pt.. Care |
who: adore -God;,and. the; Devil, . Zautujh:
Squantum, AS; it is in, the ;Jadian, langyage)
T hey. adore the ape. for /qve, the: ether tgf
feer : ther is a monſtrous. bind. off wild liber
ry. here-that ever was ppon- earth; T in
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which was complained of as a ſtalking horſe
zo drayy on onr miſeries at firſt, is now only
in prz&ice, which is meer arbitrary rule 5
for now both Law, Religion and Alegiance
are here arbitrary : Touchios the laſt, tis
quite loſt, *tis permitted thar 2ny may prate,
preach or print whar they will in derogati-
on of their annointed King : which word
King was once a Monolyllable of ſom
weight in this Ile, but 'tis as lietle regarded
now as the word: Pope (among fom) which
was alſo a mighty. Monoſyllable once a-
mong us : the rule of the Law is, thar the
King can av no wrong, ther is a contrary rule
now crept in, that the King can receive no
frong z andttuly”'Sir, tis 4 great judge-
ment both npon: Prince and peeple ; upon the
me, that the love of fo many of his vaſtals
ſhold be fo alienated from him ; upov- the
other, "char their hearts ſhold be ſo poyſon'd,
and certainly "tis the effect of an MN ſpirit;
both the one and the other in all Probability
tend to the ruine' of this Kingdom. -
| Buec now Sir, (becauſe } ſee you are fo at-
rentive, and ſoc to' be much mov'd at rhis
Diſcourſe) as I have diſcover'd ento you the
general cauſe of our calamities, which was
not ouily a ſaritty but a of Re: ,
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ſo I will: 'deſcend' now to a particolar; I h;
cauſe of them ;'\4it was a Northern Nation
(Scot) that brought theſe cataracts of mif-':
chiefs upon ys 5 and you know the mn (ops
Ing,
Qut of the North
Allill comes forth. 1. 61
Far beir from me to charge the whole Na-
tion herewith 3 no, but onely ſom pernicious:
Inſtruments that had infinuared 'themſelis,/
and incorporated among us, and ſway'd both:
They. had ai
hand in every Monopoly z they had out-of |;
our- Exchequer, . and Cuſtoms near upon
400000, Crowns in-yearly Penſions, wis &'f
»odis; yet they could not be content, but:
they muſt puzzle the peace and- policy of
this Church and State : and though they ar!
in our- Court and Counſels :
a peeple of a differing Genime,differing Laws,
Cuſtoms, and Manners-unto us, yer tar mats
ter of conſcience they wold bring our necks
into their yoak, as if they had-a greater ra-
lent of reaſon, and clearer, illuminations; .as
if they underſtood Scripture better, -and
were better acquainted with God Almighty:
then we, who brought them: firſt from: Pa-%
2niſme to Chriſtianity, and alſo.to be re«
formed Chriſtians © - It feems, 1 matters
"have
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have Jittle thriven with them 5 nay the viſi-
2 [ie hand ofiheaven hath bin- heavily. upon
'-Ithem- divers. waies fince they did lift thezr
[hands againft their. native King z For.not-
T nithſtanding the vaſt ſumms they had
; Ybence, yer is Sche generality of. them D beg-
,ſgarly as ever they were z beſides, che Civil
'ISword hath-rag'd ther as furioufly as here,
find did as -much execution among them.
/{Moreover-the Peſtilence hath-bin more vio-
nc, and ſweeping in their chief Town (EZ-
:Bdenburgh) then ever itwas fince they were
ipeeple. And now lately ther's the: nota»
Wb|cſt' diſhonour befaln- them chat poſſibly: -
Jcould light upon-a Nation, in that 7000.. of -
Jours ſhold upon even ground encounter, kill;
Wy, rout and utterly diſcomfit thrice as
nany of theirs, though as well appointed
&nd arm'd as men could be: And truly Sir,
te advantages that accrue tro this Nation
Ste not afew by-thag-exploit ;- For of late
hears that Nation was: crved. up abroad to
Þe a more Martial peeple: then we;; and to
ſve bafflgd-us. in open field in divers trayer-
Yes : | beſides, T hope a ſmall marter will pay:
Þow their, Arrerages here;. and elſewhere;
ut principally, 1 hope they will-por.be ſo
Fufic. hereafter in our Court and Counſe, as:
Shey have bin formerly, Ano-
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Another cauſe of our calamity is 2 ſtrange th;
race of peeple (the Puritans) ſprung npa-[
mong our ſelfs, who- were confederar with G
thoſe of the North ; they-wold make Gods
Houſe'cleane, and by putting out the candle],
ef all ancient learning and knowledge, they (,
would ſweep it only dy the light of an 1g»ig,,
fatuns :but tis viſibly found that they have itt
.bronght much more rubbage into it , and 1,
wheras in reforming this honſe, they 'ſholdſ] #1,
rather find out the greet that is loſt, they goſſ.”
about to take away the »»/te that's lefr, and
fo put Chrifts Spouſe tolive on meer almes:}|
True it is, there is a kind of >c4/ that burns .
in- them, (and-I could with there were fof'
much: piety) bur this 2ea? byrns with tool j,
much. violence and prefumprion,- which sÞ;
no good ſymptom of fpiritzaf health; it be-
ing-a rele, that as the natural hear, ſo the
Ppuicuallſhold be moderar, els it commonhJ,, .
curns to 4 frenzy, #d thar is che thing whichh |
eauſethiſuch a giddinefſe and 'diftradtion inſ};,1.
their braines 3 This (proceeding from theſ|.
ſuggeſtions of an il! ſpirit) puffs them upſ,;
with fo much ſpiritual pride ; for-the Devil ho
is ſo cunning a Wraſtler, that he oftentimes; |
lifts men vp to give them the greater fall 4.
they think they have an inerring ſpirit, and fan,
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[hat their Dif muſt needs: go. tru, howſo-
ever che ”_ goes :. they wold: make the
Goſps8, 35 the Caddies make the Alcharay,
to decige;all Eiyill temporall matters under
the large notion of flander, whereol they fore
'I footh''to be the Fudges, and {ain time to
"I hook i in 41l chings ro their Claſs: 1 believe
i chefe-men, were difleted when they are
Cad etieg would. bg a great deale of _ |
liver age m their ÞTAIBES« S IT%
Ee 6 ly wherk, Having man eiopemer Lees
Nottis babent + L—
But: K, copld pirty hs Ciddineſ of their
lrainos, had they nos (o. much; gaw. 3n their
reaffogyere they not © rhirſting after blood,
o fullo poiſon. and irreconcileable malicey -
fr Come that it may be very well chought,
thely nn are a kin to that race which ſprung.
our of the Serpents teeth - theſe are they,
which have ſedaced our-great; Counſell, and
led rhis fooliſh City by-the noſero begin.
2nd forment this ygly. War, inſomach has if
thoſenymberleſs bodies which have: periſh'd
In theſe. commotions, were caſt into her
'Y ſtreets, and; before her-doores, many thou-
ſand. Citizens noſes. waykd: bleed of pure
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| Not to hold you long, theſe are the men
who have baffled common ſence, blaſted the
beans of ature, and offered violence to res: are
ſon it ſelf ;, theſe: are they who have inf4-[the
ruaced moſt of the peeple of this Tland ; foffihi
that' whereas in times paſt, ſom call'd herfſou!
the Ile of Angels, ſhe maybe'term'd now thel fait
He of Gu{s, or more-properly the Ile off ci
Doggs, or rather indeed-rhe Ile of Wolf, Ge
there is ſuch a true! 'Zycathrepy com in-a-[Ro
mong us : Iamlothto call her the Iland of fir
Devills, thaugh ſhe hath- bin. branded (o- a-Yl7;
broad. EIS 2h:
| To conclude Sir, the glory of this Ile is [ma
quite blaſted ; 'ris tru they ſpeak of peace, {lay
but while the King (peakes''1o. them' of #t; they Yand
make themſelves ready for battle, I riiuch fear;
that xion-like we'imbrace a cloud for peice;
out of which" there will iflue ' out Ceas!
tavres; and Monſters, as ſprung -our' of: that'Þ *
o
7
-- Touching - that ancient'ſt holy ' 0r4er |ſ|beſ
whereof youſee me to be'; I well koped;'
that in regard: they preterided ro: reform:
things only; they wold-not have quite'extir- Ti
pated,: bur regulated only this Order tit had:*
bin enough to 6rayle our- wings, not tohave'!
ſear'd them:-ro have lopp'd and pran'd, not
| | to.
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Ito have deſtroyed reor and branch of char
end ancient tree-which was planted by the hands
befſof the Apoſtles themſelfs : In fine Sir, we
&[zre a loſt peeple, 'tis no other Dedalus, bur
4[the high Deity of heaven can clue us out of
oflhis labyrinth of contuſtons, can extricdr' us
tour of this maze of miſeries: the Philoſopher
eQfaith, 'ris impoſſible for man to 'quadrar a
Circlezſo tis not inthe power of man, bur of
{| God alone, to make a-loyall Subject of a
»FRound' head : Among other things thar
{ſtrangers report of this Iland, they ſay thas
B:nter here hath too many teares in his eyes :
-RHelas Sir, 'tis impoſſible he ſhold have roo
{many now, to bewaile the: lamentable baſe
e fllavery, that'a free-born peeple is com to :
5:8and though: they are grown ſo rame
fs to kifte' che rod that whips them, yes
f _ Taikmaſters will not throw 1c into the
Wire :: 5... 3142 | |
"Truly Sir, as my tongue is too feeble to
-Fexprefſe our miſeries, ſo the plummer of the
beſt underſtanding is too ſhort to fadom the
4Jcepth of them, ff : 1:00 142 ol
With this, the grave Venerable Biſhop
MWiving me his benediftion, fetcht ſuch a
2b, chat would have rended a rock aſun-
Fer ; and ſuddenly vaniſh'd (norbon ge
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out of my ſight up towards Heaven, I pre-
ſeatly after awoke abont. ithe dawnings of
the day, when one_Tould: hardly -difver
Dog from Wolt; and niy foul, my 41:#»
la vagulablandula, beg, re-eatred . rhroughl
the Horn gate of {leepinto her former man.
fion, half tyr'd afcer lo long a Peregrinati:
on 3 and-having rubd my «yes, diſiende uy
my limms,.and returnd to a. tull expergef...
fation, 1 begin to call my ſelf ro accouniy,
touching 'thoſe world.of obje&s my fangff;,,
had repreſented unto tne tha night; arr,
When by way of reminiſcence I fel coexantiiſſy.
and ruminate upon them ;..Lord , . what.uz,,
maſſe of des ran in my head ! bur when IÞ,c |
call'd ro mind the laſt Countrey. my foulſſ;,
wandred in, methought I felt my heart likifi,;
. alump of lead within me, whet I conlidereQy,
| howpateverycircumſtance mighc be.applyF,,;
edto the preſent condition of England: Ir;
was meditating with my ſelf. what kind off -
dream this might bez wherupon I choughſ;p;
upon the common diviſton that -PhilowJz;n.
phers make of dreams, that they.are either je
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wa
, Divine -
ft YDiabolicall,
ws | YNacurall, or
3» _ CHumane.
t
FJ For the firſt, they are Yifons more pro-
rely or Revelations, wherot ther are 'divers
©I:xamples in the holy Oracles of God, but
ole puddled cranies of 2 brain are not
rooms clean enough to entertain Tach
oFTouching the ſecond kind, which come by
vilthe impulſes of the Devil, I have heard of
-Wivers of them, as when one did riſe ap out
Sf his fleep, and ferchr a poyniard co ſtab
Wits bed-fellow, which he had done, had he
Ritor bin awake 3 Another went to the next
cechamber abed ro his mother, and wold have
IyJFaviſh'd ber ; but I thank God this dream of
| | nine was not of thar kind,
08 Touching the third ſpecies of dreams ;
5 nhich are natural dreams, they are accor-
Wing to the humor which predominats ; if
© IMelancholy (way, we.dream of black dark-
Flom devious places ; if Phlegm, of waters ;
ft Choler, of frayes, fighrings, and croubles 5
3; Sanguin predominar, we dream of green
-Pfclds, gardens, and other pleaſant repreſen-
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tations; and the Phyſitian comes ofrent toll-P!
know the quality of adifeaſe by the noRur-."
nal objects of the patients fancy. of
Humane dreams the laſt fort relate to thelſ,!!
actions of the day paſt; or of the day folloy4./*
ing, and ſom repreſentations are clear andfſ:
even; others are amphibions, morigrel],
diſtorted and _ſqualid - objes,(according toff/
the ſpecies of trees over troubled waters:)fl/
and the obje& is clear or- otherwiſe,accor
ning to the tenuity or groſſeneſſe of the: ya4.0
pors which aſcend from the ventricle up to Ik
the brain. 7-7 IAC:
_ Touching »y Dream,T think it was of this wt
laſt-kind; for T was diſcourſing of, and cor W
doling the {ad diſtempers of our times che*
day before: I pray God fom part of ir prove
not prophericall; for, although the French-
| man fſayeth, Soxges ſont Menſonges, dreamt}:
are deluſions, and that they turn ro contre
. ries, yet the Spaniard hath a ſaying, n
Et ciego ſonnava que vis -
. TYeralo que querria. Cat
| The blind man dream he did ſee light 2
The thing he with'd for happen'd right
Inſomuch that ſome Dreams oftentime!ſſ':
| provey-*.
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Jrove tru; as S. Auſtin makes mention of i 2
+. rich Merchant in 2z{an,who being dead, ope
of hisCreditors comes to bis {on to demand
hell, Juch.a. ſum of money which he had lent his
father ; the ſon was confident-'ewas paid, bur
ndf-n0t finding the Creditors Receipr, he was
T impleaded and like to be caſt in the Sure,
had not his fathers Gboſt appeared to him,
\0,and directed him'to the place where the
Acquittance was, which he found the next
dy accordingly. Galen ſpeaks of one that
dreamt he.had.a wooden leg, -and the next
Oday he was taken with a dead Palſie in-one
whole fide. . Such a Dream was that of
William Rufus, when he thought he had felr
acald guſt paſſing through his bowels, and
e.next day he was {lain in the guts, by the
glance-of anartow, in new Forreſt, a place
where be and his Father had committed ſo
many Sacrileges. I have read in Artime-
dorus, of.a woman that dreamt ſhe had ſeen
the pictures of three faces in the Moone like
her ſelf, and ſhe was brought to. bed of three
daughters a little after, who all died with-
in the. compas of a moneth. Another
dreamt, that Xanthus water.ran red, and the
next day he fell a ſpicting of blood.
.To.this I. will add another fore- telling
Z Dream;
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my
Dreatm,whereof I have read, which was thus: f|
twoyoung Gentlemen being travelling” a-(
broad in ftrange Countreyes, and beingJC:
come tro a great towne, the one lay' far infor
the Citie, the other in an Hoſtry withourſbui
the wall in the Suburbs : he in the Ciry didJthe
dream in the dead of night, that his friendſint
which he had lefcin the Suburbs ruth'd into kin
his chamber panting and blowing, being pur-ted
ſued by orhers; he dreamt ſo againe, andFjabl
the third time he might ſee his friends]yh
Ghoſt appearing at his beds fide with blond ]
trickling down his throat, and a PoyniardJye
1n his breſt, celling him , Dear friend, I amet
come now to take-my laſt farewell of thee, gat
and it thou riſe betimes, thon ſhalt meet mſſon
inthe way going to be buryed ; the'nextual
morning his friend going with his Hoſt to-
wards the Inn in the Saburbs wher he lett
his friend, they mer with a Carr Jaden with
dung in the way, which being ſtaid and
ſearch'd, the dead body was found naked in
the dung. | x
Twill conclude with a notable Dream that
Oſman the Great Turk had not matylyor
years ſince, a few days before he was mut-YFoj
thered by his Janizaries, 2623, He dreamiſ{mo
that being mounted upon a buge Came), y wha
_ coulcy
(237)
: [could fot make him go, though he ſwitch'd
-Nand ſpiir'd him neverſo much z art laſt rhe
# [Camel overthrew him, - and being upon the
n ground; only che bridle was left in his hand ;
rſbuc che body of the Camel was vaniſhed?
dthe Muf#i not being illuminated enough ro
dinterpret this Dreatti. a Santon who was a
0 kind of Idior, told him, the Camel tepreſen-
r-Flted the Ottoman Empire, which he not being
able ro govern, he ſhold be Frottirown,
is ['yhich two dayes after proved tits! © 2
10] By theſe, and a cloud of examples more;
de may conclude, that Dreams are nor alto-
mn { vv impertinent, bur ſomthing may be
PSaak ix
hf Somnia venturi ſunt preſcia ſepe diet;
th By Dreams we oft may gaeſfe
nd At the next dayes (uccefle.
it
T Hos have you a rough account of a ram-
an 2 bling Nottivazation up and down the
ffrorld : I may boldly ſay, that neither Sir
'BFobn Mandevile, or Coryat himielt travell'd
1fImore in ſo ſhorc a time : whence you ſee
beJhac nimble Poſtillions the Animal Spirits
1 ZZ are 5
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Ire; and with what incredible celerity. the
imazination can croſſe the Line, cut the Tro-
piques, and paſs to the other Hemiſphere off”
the world ; which ſhews that humane ſouls].
have ſomthing in them of the Almighty, ;
char their faculties have a kind of ubiquira-
ry freedom, though the body be-never of J
under reſtraint, as the Authors is.
They erre as much who think all Dreams falſe,
As They who think Them alwayes irn.
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In the priſon < .
of the Fleert 3, Idus Foie.
Decembris | | |
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VINDICATION
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f Touchiog a Letter He writ to as
irom the Court of Spain, in A»ſwer to a
Letter which Pope Gregory the 15th, had
)
ſent Him upon paſting the D:#Perſation for
concluding the March with the I7fantz.
Which Letter Mr. Pry» mention's in his
Book call'd the Popiſh Royal Favorit,wherby the
World is apt to belecve that His Majely had
"loatineciacs ro Pope'y.
Ther goc's alto herewith ,
A clearing of ſom Aſperſions that the ra
Mr. Przz caſt's upon the Author hereof in '
the ſame Pamphlet, viz,That he was a Ma-
l;zgnant, and no friend to Parlementrs,
wWHERBYT,
He takes occaſion to ſpeak ſomthing of rhe fir.
Riſe, And alſoof the Dry as well as the
Authority of Parlements.
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TREE: SE SIS GEES THEN :
To my worthily honor'd friend:
I W. S. Knight,
ELEC Have many thanks to give you fer the
0 2 Book you pleaſed to ſend me, called
D)IER 7/4 Popith Royal Favorite ; and ac-
cording to your advice ( which 1 walue
in high degrce) 1 did put pen to paper, and
ſomthing you may ſee 1 have done (though in 4
poor pamphleting way) to clear my ſelf of thoſe
aſper frons that ſeem to be caſt upon His Majeſty z
But truly Sir, 1 was never ſo unfit for ſuch 4
| tazk s all my Papers, Mannſcripts, aud Notes
having bin long ſince ſeized upon and kept from
me : Adde hereunto, that beſides this long preſ-
ſure and Languiſhment of cloſe reſtraint (the
ſenſe wherof I find hath much ſtupified my ſþi-
1its)it pleaſed God to viſit me lately with a dan-
gerazs fit of ſickne ſs, a high burnin fever,with
the new atſeaſe, wherof my Body as well as my
Mind # yet ſomwhat crazie : ſo that (take all
Z 4 affl: ions
a.
$ © + ARR
effiicHions together) 1 may truly ſay,1 have paſ-l|
F the Ordeal, the fiery Tryal.. But it i Ri
pleaſed God to reprieve me to ſee better daies 15;
hope ; for out of this fatal black Cloud, which Þ *
ow ore- ſets this poor Iſland, 1 hope ther will
break a glorious Sunſhine of peace and firm T
baptized * Toeffe& which, had 1 a Jury, «
grand- Jury of lives, 1 wold ſacrifice thems all,
and triumph in the oblation.
-_ 1 moſt affectionately kiſs your hands, and}*
wy &
Your faithfull /though aff#:ed) Servant,
From the Priſon "
'
Ly
f x
[The Pre-eminence, and Duty
PARLEMENT.
Sedtio Prima.
Rs Am a Free-born Subjed? of the
{34 Realm of Englaxd ; wherby I
2, claim as my native Inheritance,
—— and portion in the Laws of the
Land : And this diſtinguiſherh me from a
Wave. I claim likewiſe proteFiop from my
-Pooverain Prince, who as He is my Liege Lord
Ks obliged to protec? me, and I being one of
"His Zzege peeple am obliged to obey Him by
f;Eway. of Reciprocation ; I claim alſo an in-
-Mereſt and common right in the High Na-
-Frional Court of Parlemezr, and in the power, |
the priviledges and juriſdiion S——— |
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put in equal ballance with the Zaws, in re-
ard it is the fountain whence they fring 3 and
this I hold alſo co be a principall pare of my
Birth-right; which Great Councell T honour,
reſpect, value, and love in as high a degree
as can be , as being the Bulwark of our liber-
ties, the main boundary and bank which keeps
us from ſlavery, few the inundations of tyran-
nicall Rule, and unbounded Will-government,
And Ihold my (elf obliged in a tye of indi
penſable obedtence, to conform and'{ubmir
my ſelf ro whatſoever ſhall be tranſacted,
concluded, and conſtituted by its authority
in Church or State with the Royal aſlent,
Wheguer ic be by making, ealargins, alte-
ring, diminiſhing, diſanulling g, repealing, ot
reviving of any Law, Statute, AR, or Ordi
nance whatſoever, either rouching matretrs
Ecclefiaſtical, civil, comman, capiral, crimi-
nall, martial, maritime, municipall, or ar
other ; of all which the tranſcendent an
uncontrollable juriſdictian of rhae Court. 1s
capable to take cognizance.
Amongſt che three things which the 4
thenian Captain thank'd the gods for, one
was, That he was born a Grecian, and. not
Barbarian ;, For ſuch was the vanity of the
Greeks, and aſter chem of the Komans in thi.
flouriſh
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flouriſh of their Monarchy, to arrogat all
civility to themſelves, and to terme all the
' | world beſides Barbarians : ſal may ſay to
> | rejoyce, that I was bore a vaſlall to the
| Crown of England; that] was born under
- | ſo well-moulded and temPered a Govern-
| ment, which endows the ſubject with ſuch
- | Liberties 2nd infranchiſements that bear up
«|| his naturall courage, and keep him till in
*| heart ; ſuch Liberties that fence and ſecure
[} him eternally from the gripes and rallons of
bf Tyranny: And all this may be imputed to
/ | the Authority and wiledome of this High
, | Court of Parlement, wherein there is fuch a
|| rare co-ordination of power (though the
ry Sowverazgnty remain fill entire, and untrans-
IF ferrable in the perſon of the Prizce) there
5E is ſach a wholſom mixrure twixt Monarchy,
i-N optimzacy, and Democracy, twixt Prince ,
1 Peers, and Commonalty, during the time
of conſultation , that of ſo many diſtin&
by parts, by a rare co-operation ang unanimiry
they make but one Body Potitick, (like thar
if ſheafe of arrows in the Emblem) one entire
oy concentricall peece,the King being ſtil! the
Head,and the reſults of their deliberations
but as ſo many harmonious diapaſons ariſing
from different ſtrings. And what greater
immunity
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immunity and happineſle can there be to |;
Peeple, than to be liable ro no Laws but what *
they make themſelves ? to be ſubjeR rono
contribution, aſſeſſemenr, or any pecuniary]
erogations whatſoever, but what chey Vote,
and voluntarily yeeld unto themſelves 2 For
in this compacted Politick Body, there be all
dzorees of peeple repreſented; both the
Mechanick, Tradeſman, Merchanr, and Yeo-
man have their incluſive Vote, as well as the | *
Gentry,in the perſons of their Truſtees,cheir
Kaights and Burgeſles,in paſſing of all things,
| Nor is this Soveraign Surintendent Coun
cel an Epitome of this Kingdom only, but it
may be ſaid to have a repreſentation of the
whole Univerſe ; as I heard a fluent well-
worded Knight deliver the laſt Parliament,
who compared the beautifull compoſure of
chat High Court to the great work of God,
the World it (elf : The King is as che Sun,
the Nobles the fixed Stars, the Itineant jud-
2es and other Officers (thar go upon Meſſa-
ves 'twixt both Houſes) to the Planets ; the
Clergy, to the Element of fire 5 the Com-
mons, to the ſolid Body of Earth, and the reſt
of the Elements. And to purſue this com-
pariſon a little farther ; as the heavenly Bo-;
dies, when three of them acer in Coojunit-
| on,
Q
as
PrRAW,
"R_-
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1m, do uſe to produce ſome admirable effe&s
inthe Elementary World ; So when thefe
three States convene and aſſemble in one ſo-
lemne great ua, ſome notable and extra-
ordinary things are brought forth, tending
tothe welfare of the whole Kingdom our
Microcoſmes | "wr
HE that is never ſo lictle- verſed in the
& Annals of this Ile,will find chat it hath
bin her fate to be four times conquered, Tex-
clude the Scot for the ſ{cituation of his Coun-
CS du af va _ 9
| The firſt Conqueſt I find was made by
Claudins Ceſar, at which time (as ſome well
obſerve) the Roman Enſeenes, and the Stan-
dard of Chriſt came in together : It is well
| known
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known what Lawes the Roman had z He had
his Comit?4, which bore a reſemblance wich
our Convention in Perlement 3; the place ſth
of their meeting was called Pretortem, and [me
the Laws which they enifted, Plebiſcita. wh
The S4axos Conqueſt ſucceeded next; m4)
which were the Engliſh, there being no name ſſcor
in Welſh or 1riſh tor 'an Engliſh man, but
. Saxon, to this day 5 They alſo govetned by
Parlement, though ic were under 'othet
naines, as Michel Sinoth, Michel Gemote, and Ni
Witenage Motes , *
There are Recortds above * > rhonſand
years old of theſe Payfrments in the Reigns 6
of King 1ns, Offa, Erhelbert, and thereſt: of Fit
the ſeven Kings during the Heptarchy > "The
Britiſh Kings alſo, who retain'd a great while:
fome part of the Iſle unconquered, oovers!
nedand made Laws by akind of Parlemen-
tary way-:z witneſſe the famous Laws off
Prince Howel, called Howef Dha, (the good
Prince Howef) whereof® there are yet extant
ſome Britiſh Records: 'P4r{ements were alſo oo
uſed after the Heprarchy by King Kenulphus,ſſio
Alphred, and others ; witrefle char renow-fÞe
ned Parliament held at Grately by KingPy '0
A thelft an. | | | ra
The third Gonqueſt was by the Dent, ih
ar
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1nd they govern alſo by ſach generall Af-
ſemblies, (as they do to this day) witneſſe
that great and ſo much celebrated Parle-
ment held by that mighty Monarch Cannes,
who was King of Zneland, Denmark, Nor-
, £v4y, and other Regions 150 years before the
e [compiling of Magna Charta ; and this the
t learned 1n the Laws do hold ro be one of the
y ſpecialiſt, and moſt authentick peeces of ag-
t tiquity we have extant. Edward the Con-
d {for made all his Laws thus, (and he.was a
peat Leg#s-lator,) which the Norman Con-
{ Equerour Gyho liking none of his ſons, made
N
f
[
ford Aimighty his heir by bequeathing unto
him this Hladd for a &rgaty) did ratifie and e-
ſabliſh, and digeſted them into one entire
nethodicall Syſteme, which being violated
Wy Rvfrs,(who came toſuch a Giſaftrous end
ro be ſhot to death in lieu of a F-c| for
is ſacriledges) were reſtor'd by Henry the
rſt, and fo they continued in force till
Wing: Zohn ;' whoſe Reign is renowned for
Firſt confirming Magna Charta, the fotmida-
Fiion of our Liberties ever fince : which may
{= compar'd to divers ontlandiſh graffes ſtt up-
Bm oe Englifh flock ; or to a poſie of ſundry
$22rant flowers ;, for the'choiceſt of rhe'B77-
4,0, the Ronan, Saxon, Daniſh, and Norman
; Ee, Lawes
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Laws, . being cull'd -and- pick'd; out; and |
- gathered as it were into. one . bundle, outrf]
of them the foreſaid Grand. Charter .wag
S
l
extracted; And the eſtabliſhment of this
great Charrer was the work of: a Parlia
ment. .. 2 2 as hace oxant
Nor are-the Lawes of this Tſiand only,anc n)
the freedome of the: Subjedt conſerved by] ;;
Parlement, but all the beſt policed CounJ| co
| tties of Europe have. the like. ThejGerF fr,
manes have their. D#ets,- the Danes. and} co
Swedes their Rijcks Dachs 4; the Spaniard] wi
calls his Parlement ./as Cortes. and thelf fo,
French have, (or ſhould have atleaſt) their yp
Aſſembly of three States, though it be growndſ] hi]
now in a manner obſolete, becauſe the Au wi!
thority chereof was (by accident). deyoly'df] be,
to the Kine, And very. remarkable. itisY tab
bow this happened ; for. when the Zag1i/Mfl wi
had taken ſuch large footing in -moſt party #-/
of France, having advanced as fat as Orleani hol
and driven their then -King. Charles che lf Ge
venth, to Bourges in Berry the Aſſembly of td ung;
three States in theſe preſſares; being notable nex
to meet after the uſuall manner: in fall 2a 2 cl
lement becauſe the Countrey, was unpaſlaf] hoy
ble, the Enemy having made ſuch firme infſ his
vaſions up and down through Me Fery gy Was
h " |
" 391)
els of the Kingdom ; That power which
formerly was inherent in the Parlementary
a Aſſembly, of: making Laws, of aſſeſſing the
iY Subject with Taxes, ſabſiliary levies, and 0-
a ther impoſirions, was cranſmicted to the
King during the war; which: continueth ma-
dg ny years; that entruſted power by length of
| time grew as ir were habicnal in him, and
could never after be re-aſſumed and caken
from him; fo thar- ever fince, his Zaidr
AJ countervaile” 4s of Parlement. And that
J which made: the buſineſſe more © feafable
tor the King, was, that the burchen fell moſt
uporithe Communaltyi(the Clergy and No-
F bilicy noc feeling the weight of it) who were
_ co fee the Feafampull'd down a little;
oF becaute not many years before, in that no-
5F table Rebellion, call'd 42 jaquerie de Beau-
vifin, which was ſuppreſſed by Charles the
Y iſe, the Common people put themſelyss
J boldly in Arms againſt: the Nobility and.
4} Gentry,'to leflen their: power: Adde here-
UA unto- as an advantage:to che work,. that the
F nexe ſucceeding; King Zewis.the, eleventh, was
a cloſe cunning Prince, and could well tell
ty} how to- play his game, and draw water to
J bis own mills - For amongſt all che reſt; he
"a$ ſaid to: be the w_ that put tbe Kang
F.
Ld ©
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of France, Hors de page,out of their minority,: hoy
or from being Pages any'more,though therby
he brought the' poor peaſaxs to be worſe: ide
than Lacquays, and they may thank themſelfo the
for-it.- +”. 00 ' tre)
Nevertheleſſe, as that King hath an: a6. | ?
vantage hereby one way, to Monarchizt vu
more abſolately, and never to want money, wel
but to ballaſt his purſe when he will; ſotha Þ!3
iS another mighty inconvenience -ariſeth to Þ®<*
him and his whole Kingdom: another way';F*K
for this peeling of the Peaſanbath ſo dejed+ Met
ed him. and cowed: his native: courage {0 of;
much. by the ſenſe of poverty (which brings ſery
aloe withit a navronneſſe of (i!) that he's]l-
| liztte! ufefull for the war which put's' chefj6**
French King tro makeiorher Nations merce-Þ2"
nary to him, to fillup this 1,fantery':-” Info- thel
much, that che Kingdom of France may; be thet
not unfitly compared to a body ihartarh dl Parl
it's bloud drawn up-:intc the arms, breaſÞ$<hc
[4
and back, and ſcarce any Teſt - trom the lim
girdle downwards, to' cheriſh -and bear 'op=ſ''%
the lower-parts, and .keep' them trom tar brin
ving. © rn 153924 4412 312 110IGlore
All this ſeriouſly confidered, ther \cannd be n
be a more proper” and' pregnant -exampk lion:
than.this of our 'next Neighbours, to provefſ® |
| ho
.
'Y -
' 1
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\ ſhow inficitly neceſſary che Parlement js to.
; ſert,, to prop. up. and preſerve the publick
e liberty, and national. rights of a peeple, with
Fhibe .iacolumity and well- fare of 4 Coun-
Yire |
x 8 doch the. Subject only reap benefit
g thus by Parlement, but the Prince, (if it be
Ewell confider'd) hath equal advantage ther-'
{ $by.3/ Jr rendreth, bim a King of free arid able
Hmen,' which js far more plorious than to be
{King of Comards, Beggars, aid Bankrupts ;
{ EMen-char by; their ftreedom,and comperency
-Jot:wealth, are. kept ill in hearc ro do bim
efervice againſt an '{raling force. And it 1s a
Mi maxime in all Seates, that 'tis lefſe dan-
Alter and diſhonour for the Prince-to be poor;
Fun his people: Rich Subjects cati make
-ſltbeir King rich when they pleaſe, if he gain
«Iibeir hears, he will quickly ger cheir purſes:
1 Parlepnent encreaſerh love and g00d intelli-
Fence: twixt him and his peeple, ic acquaints
t lim with the realicy of things, and with the
tru ſtate and diſeaſes of his Kingdom, it
:Nbrings him. to the knowledg of his better
fort of Subje&s, and of their abilities, which
i may employ accordingly upon all occa-
| ions ; Ic provides for his Royal Iſfſae, pays
; bly debts, Hinds. means to fill his Cofters':
- #2 and
/ _
n— .
(354)
and it is no ill obſervation, That Parlement-
moneys (rhe great Aid) have proſpered beſt bu!
with che Kings of England; Ir exceedinglyſ*
raiſeth his repute abroad, and enablerh hin®c
to keep his foes in fear, his Subjetts in awe, hi
Neighbours and Confederates in ſecurity, the lay
three main things which go tro aggrandize a?
Prince, and render him glorious. In ſumme;F® '
itis the Parlement that ſupports, and bearsj9'S
up the honour of his Crown, and ſerrles his'S
Throne in ſafety, which is the chief end off*#”
all their conſulcations : For whoſoever | ala
entruſted to be a Member of this HighF* d
Courc, carryeth with him a double: cap yeh
City 3 he ſits ther as a Patriot, "and as a Sub"
jet: as he is the one, the Country is his obJ'! ©
jeR, his duty being to vindicat the publick*<<
liberty, to make wholſom' Lawes, ro put ade,
his hand co the pump, and ſtop the leaks offfÞ 4
the great veſlel of the Scare; to pry into,and}J'®
puniſh corruption and oppreffion, ro im-W%
prove and advance trade, to have the grie-W.
- vauces of the place he ſerves for redreſſed,j'%>*
and caſt about how to find ſomthing that , bij
may tend to the advantage of it. WL
But he muſt nor forget thar he firs ther al{c of
as a SabjecF, and according to thar capacity, 02!
he muſt apply himſelf co do his wo P b
NO” _ (355) |
+| buſineſle, to provide nor only for his peblick,
y but, his perſonal wants; to bear up the luſtre
\(adglory of bis Cowt; To confider what
Yoccafions of extraordinary expences he may
«ſtave, by encreaſe of Royal ITue, or mainte-
tance of any of them abroad ; To enable him
Fo vindicat any affront or indigniry thar
Fvighe be offered to his Perſon, Crown, or
*$Dignity, by any forrain State or Kingdom,
\{Þcinteſtin Rebellion ; "To conſult what may
ipalarge his honoar, contentment, and pleaſure.
And as the French Tacitme (Comines) hath.
#$+ibe Engliſh Nation was ufed toþe more
,Jorward and zealous in this particular chan
iy othergaccordiog chat to ancient eloquent
1cech of a great Lawyer, Domus Regis vigi-
(fie defendit omuinm, otium illins labor omni-
fv, dclicie itlins induſtria omnium, wvacatio
(05 0ccupatio omnium, ſalus illins periculum
\minm, honor Ulins objettum omnium. Eve-
« one (hold ſtand Centinell to defend. the
{ings houſe, his ſafety ſhold be the danger of
ah» Dis pleaſures the induſtry of all, his eaſe
(ld be the /abovr of all, his honour the 06-
Wb of all, Eo
y,f Out of theſe premiſſes this concluſion |
Ay be ealily deduced, That, the principall
B1tain whence the King derives his happine(s
y þ 4 -- and
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4a ſa owls igang Parbement 3 It is that great
Conduic-pipe which conveighes gnco him
his peoples bounty and graticude's Thetru-N-
eſt Looking-glaflſe wherin he diſcernes their
loves; (now the Subjeits love hath been always -
accounted the prime Cittadell. of 4 Prince.) |
his Parlement he appears as rhe San in
Meridian, in the altitude of his glory, ##:
higheſt State Rogal, as the Lawtells us.; by
* herfore whoſoever is::ayerſe or "difat
feed to his Soveraign Eaw-making Court
cannot haye his heart well planred. within
bim, he can be neither goqd_. Subject, nof/
good Patriot, and therfore unworthy if
at Engliſh aire, or have any benefit, M |
vantage, or prote&tion from the Laws,”
774;
b
Seftio Secunda,
J Y that which hath bin ſpo-
ken,which is the languaze of
A w9 heart, {hope no incit-
pl ferent judicious Reader
FIN Will doubt of the corctajl
| affection, of the high re-
. ſpects and due reverence I
| bear to Parlement, as being the wholſomeſt
' conſtirution, (and done by the higheſt and
happieſt reach of policy that ever was eſta-
bliſhed in this 74nd) to perpetuate the hap-
pineſſe therof, Therfore I muſt tell that Ger-
tleman, who was Author of a Book entituled
the Popiſh Royal Favorite, (lately printed and
expoſed to the world) that he offers me ve-
ry hard meaſure nay, he doth me apparent
wrong, to term me therin, No friend to Par-
lement, and a Malignant . A charater, which
as I deſerve it nor, fo I diſdaiz it.
For the firſt parc of his charge, I wold
have him know, that I am as much a friexd
and as reall an affeffionat humble ſervant and
| Aaz Votary
>
«
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Aotary to the Pariement as poſſibly he: can;
be, and will live and die with" theſe affetions:
about me : And I could with, - that 'he' were"
Secretary of my thoughts a 'while, -or if Þ
may take the boldneſle to. apply chat com-'
pariſon his late Majeſty uſed 'in a famous
ſpeechto one of his Pariements,” T'could: with
ther were a Chryſtal window'in my 'breaft;
chrough which che world might eſpye 'the
inward motions and palpitations of my heatr,
rhen would he be certified of the fincerity of.
this proceſtation, : Es AC CUR
-For the ſecond part of his Charge, to be:
a Malignant, 1 maſt confefle 'td -have fom
Aalienity that lurks within me mnch - againſt
my will ; but it is no maligniy of mind, it is
amoneſt the humors, not in my rmtellitFuals ;
And 1Ibelieve, ther is no naturall- man, ler
tim have his 4umors never ſo well ballanced,
bur hath ſom of this Malignity reigning with-
in him, For as long as we are compoſed of
the four Elements, whence theſe bums 8
are derived, and with whom they ſymbolize
in qualities; which Elements 'the Philoſo-
phers hold to be in areſtleſle contention: a-
mongſt rhemſelyes {and the Stqick thought
| that the world ſubfiſted by this innated mu-
rual ſtrife)as long 1 ſay,as the faur hwmers,in
a , 1mita-
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imication of cheir principles (the Elements )
| re. in perpetual reluctancy and combare for
przdominancy, ther muſt be ſom m»alignity
ladg'd within, us, as aduſted choler, and: the
Tikes; wherof Thad late experience,in a dan-
oerous-fit of fickneſle it. pleaſed God to lay
upon me, which-the Phyfttians told me pro-
ceeded from the malignant hypocondriacall
effects of melancholy; having bin ſo long in
this Satarnine black condition of cloſe im-
priſonment, and buryed alive berween the
walls of this faral Fleet : Theſe kinds of
malignities, | conteſſe are very rife in me,
and they are not only incident, but .connatu-
rall coevery. man according to his complexi-
onz. And were it not for this inceſſant
ſrugling and enmity amongſt the humers for
maſtery, which procuceth ſuch malignant
effecs in us,: our ſouls wold. be loth ever to
depart from. our bodies, or to abandon this
manſion of clay.
Now what malignity my Accuſer means,
| 1 know.nox z if be means mayer of ſpirit,
35s ſom antipathy or ill impreſſion upon the
mind, ariſing from diſaftection, hatred, or
rancor, With a defire of ſom deſtructive re-
venge, he is mighrily deceived in me; I
maligne or hate no Creature thar eyer oy
=o" mage
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all'meliznity ; and therfore is moſt, com-
monly called in French le'Malin Eſprit, the
malignant ſpirit, Every night before I-goto
bed, I have the grace, I thank God for. it; to
forgive all the world, and not to harbour, or
let rooſt in my boſom the leaſt. malignant
thoughes yer none can deny, but 'the ppb-f
lickaſperfions which this my Accuſer caſts
npon- me, were. enough to make me a m4-
lignant towards him; yet it could neyer
have the power to do it: For I have prevail'd
with my ſelf ro forgive him this -his wron?
cenſare of me, iſſuing rather from his z0t-
knowledge of me, than from malice, for we
never mingled ſpeech, or ſaw 'one another
*1n our lives to my remembrance 53 which
makes me wonder the more, that a Profeſ-
for of the Zaw, as he is, ſhold pronounce
' ſuch apoſitive ſentence againſt me ſo (light-
ly. Bur merhinks I over-hear him ſay,- that
my precedent diſcourſe of Parlement is in-
vol'd in generals, and the Topique Axiome
tells us, that Dolas werſatur in univerſalibm,
ther is double dealing in univerſals : His
' meaning is, that'T am no friend to this pre-ſſ
ſent Parlement (though he ſpeaks in the;plu-
| rall number Parlements ) ang conſequently, 1-8
he
(361)
hecancludes me a Malignant ; Therin I muſt
tell him alſo, that I am traduc'd, and'T am
confident it will be never prov'd againſt me,
from any 4dFons, words, or letters (though
divers of mine have bin intercepted) or any
other miſdemeanor, though ſom things are
farher'd upon me which never drop'd: from
my quill. Alas, how unworthy and uncapa-
ble am I to cenſure the proceedings of that
'oreat Senate, that high Synedrion,wherin-the
wifdom of the whole Stare is epitomized ?
_ Te were a preſumption in me, of the higheſt
nature that could be : It is enough for me to
pray for the proſperous fucceſle of their con-
ſulrations': And as-1 hold it my 4wty, fo I
have good reaſon {o to do, inregard T amto
have my ſhare in the happineſſe; And could
+ the utmoſt of my poor endeavours, by any
miniſterial hamble office (and ſomtimes the
meaneſt Boat-ſwain may help to preſerve the
| Ship > mewn be ſo happy, as to' con-
cribur ahy thing to advance that great work
' (whictyI am in deſpair to do,while Iam thus
- under patches in this Fleet,) Iwold eſteem ir
the greateſt honor that poſſibly could befall
me,as T hold ic now to be my greateſt diſa-
ſter, to have fallen ſo heavily under an af-
© fliion of thisnature,and to be made a (acri-
*
fice
(362)
ce t9-publick fame, than which there- is no.
other 'proof, nor that yet urg'd againſt me,
or ay thing elſe produc'd after fo long, ſo
long captivity which hath brought me to
ſack a low ebbe, and put me ſo far behind
in the courſe of my poor fortunes, and in-
deed more than halfe undone me. For. al-
though. my whole life (fince T was lefc to
my ſelf to-ſwim, as they ſay, without Blad-
ders) has bin nothing elſe but a continued.
ſucceſſion of croſſes, and that there are bat.
fewred letters found (God wot).in the Al-_
manack of my Age, (for 'which I account_
not my ſelf a whit the lefle happy)'yer this
croſle has carried with it a greater weight, it_
hath bin of a larger extent, longer.concinu-,
ance, and lighted heavier upon.me than any |.
other ; and as I have preſext patience tobeare_.
ir, 'fo I hope for ſubſequent grace to make _
uſe of it accordingly, that my old Motto
may be'(till confirmed, 7e$ipere, paviuere, _
JE produceth my atteſtation for ſome _
paſſages in Spaiye at his Majeſties being
- there, and he quores me right, which obli- .
gerh me to him; and I hope all kis quotarions . :
wherein he is ſo extraordinarily copious and }.. ,
elaborate in all his workes, are ſo, Fer 1-
” -'muſt
| ( 363) =
muſt tel him, that choſe interchangeable let*:
ters which paſs'd between His Majeſty & the
Pope,which were originally couch'd in Latin,
the language wheria all Nations treat wich
Rome, and the Empire with all the Princes
thereof, thoſe letters I fay are adalcerated
In many places, which I impute not to him,
but to the French Chrepicler, from whom
he took them in truſt. _The crutch of thar
buſineffe is this ; The world knows there
was 2 tedious treaty-of an Alliance: *twixt
the Infanta Dova Maria (who now is Em-
preſſe) and His Majeſty, which in regard of
the ſlow affeRed pace of the Spaxiard, laſted
above ten yeares, as that in Hezry the ſe-
venths time, *ewixt Prince Arther, and (af-
terwards) Queen. Katherine, was ſpun out
above ſeven: To quicken, or rather ro con-
ſymmate the work, his Majeſty made that
adventurous journey through the whole
Continent of France into Spaine z- which
voyage, though there was a great deale of
gallantry in ic (wherof all poſtericy will ring
untill it turne- at laſt to a Romaxce) yet ir
prov'd the bane of the bulineſſe, which 'tis
not the errand of ſo poor a Pampbler as this
; | rounfold.' His Majeſty being there arriv'd,
; | ihe ignorant common people cried out, the
TER _ Prince
"TO
Prince of wales came thither ro make hid,
ſelf a Chriſtian ;, The Pope writ: to the Ins,
quiſitar Generall,and others,to uſe all indyſtry
they,copld to reduce him tothe Romaye Re-
ligion; And one,of olivares firſt comple:
ments.co- him, was, That he. doubted net but.
that bis Highneſſe came thither to change His,
Religion: whereunto he made a ſhore anſwer;..
That He came not thither for 4 Religion but for.
_ a Wife: There were extraordinary procgfli..
ons made, and other arcifices us'd.by pro.
crcaction of things., to make him; ſay, J:
ther of purpoſe till. che. Spring following, tg,
work upon him the better ; And the [nfar;;
7a her ſelf deſir'd him (which was efteegyd
the greateſt fayour he-received from herall
the while) to viſic the Nynze of Carten,ho-
ping thar the {ay'd Nunne,who was, ſo much
cried up for miracles, might haye wrought.
otie upon him z but her arc failed -her, nor
was His Highneſs ſo weak 2 (ubje& to work
upon according to His late Majeſties ſpeect
to. Door Mawe and Wren, who when they.
came to kiſle his hands before they went to
. Spaize to attend the Prince their Maſter, He
wiſh ed them to have a care of Buckinham 5 45
touching his Sonne Charles; be apprehended
n0 feare at all of him , for be knew him eh
(365)
:Yoell grounded 4 Proteſtant, that nothing could
ake him in his Religion.
"The Arabian :proverb is, That the Sun
\ never ſoiles in his paſſage, though his
/Ebeams reverberate never ſo ſtrongly, and
| dwell never ſo long upon the myry lake of
/EMzotis, the black turf'd moores of Holland,
the'aguiſh woole of Kent and "Eſſex, or any
in other place, be it never ſo dirty 5 Though
5p4ime be a hot Countrey,yet one may paſſe
nd ; xepaſſe through the veiy. Center of
it, atid never be Sun-burnt, if he carry wich
/Nbim- 2 Bangrace, and ſuch. a one His Maje-
b ſy. had...
"Well, after his Mijeſties arrivall to Ma-
arid, the treaty” of Marriage went on till,
(t howgb he told them athis firſt comming,
that he came not thither- like an- Ambaſſador
to treat of a Marriage, butas aPrince,ro ferch
home 2 Wife; ) 4nd in __e they were of
liffetent Religions, 1; it: couid not be done __
vithour a dilpenſarion fron the ÞPope,arid
the Pope would grant none, unlefſe ſome
Capicnlarions were ſtipulated in fayour of
the Romiſh Catbolikes in E»e/and, (the
ame in ſubſtance were agreed on with
Fraxce,) Well, when the diſpenſation
| _anes which was negotiated ſolely by the
King
| (366) |
King of Spains.Miniſters '(becauſe-His''Mi4
jeſty would have as little -co do: as mighy|c
be with Rome) Pope: Gregory-the fifteenth | þ
who: died a: lictle -afcer, ſent His Majeſty p
Letter, which was delivered-by. the Nzncefl tf
whereof an anſwer - was ſent a while after:
Which Letters were imprineed and-expoſedſ'}
rothe view of the worldy becauſe His Mx or
jefty would not have people whiſper, tharfy
the bufineſſe was - carried-/in a clandeRtineÞſ;a
manner. - And truly beſides this, I-do-notfge
know of any Letter, or: Meſſage,. or Com-Jh
_ plement, thatever paſs'd twixt His Majeſty] lic
and che Pope afore or after z ſome addrefiſ}th;
ſes peradventure might be- made-:e0 thel[zn;
Cardinalls, ro whom. the drawing =0f choſeſ;ia
matrimoniall difpatches was- refetred:itofſne{
quicken the work, but this was only by wayſſqo:
of civil negotiation, 5 vflph
' - Now touching that reſþoniſory Letter fromſyer
His Majeſty, ic was: no .other-than a-Com-ſ[yur
plement in the-ſevereſt incerprecations andſſ ge
ſuch formalicies paſſe 'twixe the-Crowa-difſthrc
England, the great Turke, the Mogor and. 1
divers Heathen. Princes- The: Popypart
writ firſt, and no man can-defy, bur: by allfef -
morall rules, and in common humane civiitfyhe
ry His Majeſty was bound-t6 anfwer-it; {P&ſſthe,
cially, ::
(367)
ciatly confideting how-puntaal they are- ici
thoſe Countries to correſpond in' this kind,
bJ how exa@ they are repaying viſits, with the
74] performance of fuch Ceremonies; And had
eff thiscompliance bin omicred,; - it might have
r:J made very illimprefſions, as:che poſture of
ed things ſtood-chen;. tor it had: prejudiced che.
great work in hand, I mean; the Match,
which was thenia the heat and height of agis
ution, His Majefties perſon was. cher enga-
off ged;'befides, and' fo ic was no time to give:
4 rhe--leaft offence: : They char are never ſo:
'Flictle -vers'd/in- bufineſſe abroad, do know:
Hy thar-ther muſt be. addrefles, compliances
heJznd formalicies:of this nature us'd in the cat-
ſeriage of matcers of Stare, as this greac buſi-
t9inefſe was, wheron the eyes of all Chriſten-
ay[[dom+ were ſo greedily fixd; A-buſineſſe
which was like to bring with it ſuch an units
Mfrerſal good, as the raciod 'of the: Palati-
N-F 4, the quenching of thoſe hideous fires in;
nd Germany,” .and che. eſtabliſhing of-a grace
” aroughour all che Chriſtian World.
pparticular which comes within the compaſie:
of my knowledg (being 'upon the Stage
lHIwhen bis Scene-was: ated) I do this right to
the Kine-my:Mafter;in - oh the Tra,
\I hope none-will cake offence; that in \ehis-
(368)
and putting her forth in her own colours).4 2
NORTON in theſe my. G02 2% ; 32612
T Ouching the. rucal Pom, an Miles
rical Diſcourſe, that goes abroad under
my fiame, a good :while-betore the beginning ||
of this - Parlement, which" this: Gentleman
cites (and that very faithfully,) I underſtand
ther be ſom rhat mucrer ar certain: paſſages
therin, by putting ill gloſſes upon the Text,
and taking with the eft hand, what Lofts
with the rieht, (Nor 1S1t a wonder for trees
which ly open, and ſtand expoſed toall wes
thers to be nipt.) Bur I deſire this favour,
which in common jultice, Iam fare in the
Court of Chancery cannot be denyed me; it
being the priviledge of every Author, and
a' received maxime through the World;
Cwjmns eſt condere, ejmus eft interpretari, | ſay;
Icrave this favour, to have leave toexponnd
my 6wn Text, and I doubt not then-bur co
reQifie any one in his: opinion of me, and
that in lieu- ofthe Plums which 1 give him
from thoſe ny hewil not throw the pats
LAY 5
- Moreover, I die thoſe chae are: oe
critical Cenlurers of rhac- Peece, to: know,
yy as.in Dividept It is $ arukes __—_ phri-
bolice
(889)
bolics naxntff gm mtative:, fo i6iginall ge
cher kind. pf knawledg s' Farables: hora
char Diſcourſe js. compoſed) theogh proſe
ueuer ſo hard, Prove; w9ihing, Ther 145: 40g,
chor R#4p alſo, Thar Parabjes rouſt be geny-
prefle r9@ hard, you (hall have dowd ia fiead
of wilk, SAL S602. Lo P1937 7/061 fic WO
- Pytasthe Author of the Fore Foreſt
thinks he hath done, neither Þis Conntirey,
par: the: :Commen wealth of Learning any
prejudice therby (Thar maiden fancy Jigs
ving reccaved {o: good entertainment and
reſpeR abraad,'. 85 tobe rranſlared: inga Mr
vers 1,anguages, and: £0 gain the puhlick
approbation of ſom famous Univerſities)
So bemakes this bumble protef} nate all
the World, thac- though the doſfigne af
that Diſcqueſe was: paxely $419r4enft: (hich
peradyenzure induc'd\the Author £9 ſhrowg
it of pyrpoſe .andee the ſhadowes of :7rees,
and where ſhould Satyres be. but amongſt
Trees? )i yer Jie neyer entred info Bis imar
ginatioo to.ler fall from bim the leaf} 314i
that might Mve any offence to rhe High,
Honourable Court of Parlement, whereof
he had the honour to be once a Member,
and hopes-he may be thought worthy again:
kind - Bh 2 And
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8
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Me
®.
Fa
'
(370)
Ahd were he Suley: of-\ſuch- an offence,...or
Pacle rarherhe-thinks he (hold never; fak-
ive Hiiſelf)chongh he were appointed his
owiJudge. VT cher occur any paſſages ther-
m, thar- may admit a hard conſtruction,
I&t the 'Reider obſerve, That: the Aathor
doth norP6fitively aſſert, or paſſe a judee-
ment on any thing io that Diſcourſe, which
confiſts principally of 'conciſe, curfory nar-
rations; -of the choiſeſt:: Occurrences- -and
Cfiriciſmes 6f Srate, according as the'pullfe
of time did\bear then: And matters of Srate,
as all othie fablunary: chings, are fubjeR*ro
alterations, cotitingencies and change,-which
makes tie on and minds of men =y
Fen
T'will oadude with this modeſt redveſt
to that Gentleman'of the long Robe; Thar ha-
'ving unpdſſionately perusd what I have writ-
ten in this ſmall Diſcovyſe,in penning wherof,
my "conſcience guided my quill allalong as
well 'as my hand, he wold' pleaſe to'be F7
<haritable and. juſt, as to reverſe thir- harſh
ſetitericeupon me, 'Tobeno Friends Parke:
eots —_ 4 « Malignant. f
wo
i 0 A N CC +
UPON THE
1 -L FE of W 'S G FT,
Tg AND b
as the unparallell'd_ Con-
ceſsions SK AC E
HIS
M A J ES I Y
paſs'd in that Trety, &#c. _
[Conduding with the horrid
Murther | — wv afterwards .
© *ypoit His Sacred Perſon,
| +. WB Oo aYv2'y ” mw rs hd GY ww YvS tus XY
Cut dabit partes ſcelus expiant
Fapiter ?
—- = <a SS ues] Boe -—_
- wo FI. — _—— mtnthnng = get fn -
A ee ee Eee ene — — — —— —— — — cz
TE an 2 Y
-— ve. -
(373)
CANS TRNES NONE)
(NEE IRENE NPE)
FF A GLA N: {6
UPON THE
IL E of W 1 GH
| OK.ANM
INQUWISITION
© AWTai::: y
TU T--M
v9 Hcpg Ho vindicats Truth doth a good
A\'= V/ S * office not onely to his own
IAV/ZS, Country, but to all Mankind ;
SNESMEP Itis the ſcope of this ſhort diſ-
6 &”. courſe, viz. to make ſom re-
ſearches after Truth, and to redFifie the world
accordingly in point of opinion, ſpecially
touching rhe firſt 4uthor and Aggreſſor of
the late ugly war in Ezglend, which brought
with it ſuch an inundation of bloud, and fo
on Bb 4 did
ESSSSET WW
SS RRC)
I 490 © |
did \et in ſo huge a torrent of miſchiefs to
ruſh upon us, . Ther be manys and-they-norfſ
only Presbyterians and Independents, but
Cavaliers alſo, who think that the King had
taken the guilt of all this bloud upon himſelf,
jn regard of that Conceſſion he paſſed in} the
preamble of the late Treatyat the 7fe of
Wieht ; The aim of this Paper is to clear
thar'poinr, but in ſo remperat a way, thar-1
hope *rwill give no cauſe of exception |
much lefſe of offence to any : rhe bloud
that's ſought after here, ſhall not be min-
eled with'gawule, much lefle with any venom
at all, REDS |
We know ther is no.Principle eicher in
Divinity, Law or Philoſophy, but may be
wreſfted to a yvrong ſenſe ; rher is no truth (o
demonſtrative and clear, but maybe ſubje&t
to cavillations ;. no Tener ſo plain, bur per-|
verſe inferences may be drawn out of it;'
ſuch a fare befell thac:preambular' Copgeſſron
His Majeſty paſſed ar. the Tranſa&ions of
the lace Treaty, in that he acknowlede-d 3her-
in that the two Houſes of Parlement were neceſ-
Gtated 10 undertake a war in their own juſt- and
lawful defence, &c. and that therfore all oaths,
Declarations, or other public Inſtruments 4:
gainſt the Houſes of Parlement, or eny for «d-
i | f berine |
ao
i /
(375)
herigg to them, ec, be declared aul ſuppreſſed,
. aud 1 forbidden.
"Tis txne,. His Majeſty paſſed this grant,
bur-wich this weighty confideration as 1t had
referenget9 two ends.
-; Firſt;-ro- ſmoorhen. and Gets: things
thereby. ro,open a paſſage, and pave the way
co 2 bappy.peace, which this poor. Iland .did
ſathirſt atcer,hov. ng big ſo long $lurted with
civilblood.-. --
Secandly,.that i it might conduce. to the
farther ſecurity, and the indemaifying of
the rwo Houſes of Parlement, with all their
inſtruments, affiſtants, and adherents, and ſo
rid them 'of all jealoufies, and fear of future
dangers which ftilllodg'd within them. Now
rouching the. expreſons and, words. of this
Grant, they were not bjs own,nor did he give
order; for thedicating-or penning thereof ;
the King, was not the , 4sthor of them, duc
an Allentor only untothem: nor was He or
bs Party accus d, or as much as mentioned
inany of them, to.draw:the leaſt guile upon
chemſelves.. Beſides, He pals 'd them as
he.doth all Lawes and Acts of Parlement,
which in caſe of abſence another may do for
him in his politic capacity, therfore they can-
not £ prejucice his perſon any waye, Jam loth
100)
4
( 376).
— Cum ſtrifta novarals ſupra,
When the razor was as' it were 'at his
throat, when ther was an Army of abour
chirty thouſand effeif-Horſe and' Foot thar
were in motion againſthim, when his Perſon
had- continued under a black' Jong lingring
reſtraint, and dangerous-menacing Petitions
and Papers daily obiruded againſt i him.
Moreover, His Majeſty paſs'd this Conceſſion
with theſe rwo: proviſos and reſeryations,
Eirſt; 'that it ſhould be ofno-'verca orva* |
lidity ac aY,, cill che whole Treary wete it
tirely conſummated |
Secondly, that he mighe when lie pleastd
inlarge and cleer the trath with the reſerved+
wefſe of his meaning herein, by public De
_ claration: Now che Treaty being confuſed-
ly huddled up, withour diſcaffing, oras much
as receiving any Propoſition from himſelf as
was capiculated, (and reciprocall propoſas
ere of the eſſence of all Treaties) 'itconld nei-
ther bind him, or turne any way to his dif-
advantage: Therfore under favour, rlier was
too much haſt us'd by the Parlement; 'to
draw that hipothetick or proviſional Con-
ceſſion to the form ofan Ai#ſo > ſaddenly af-
2 Ml
ro. ſay that he condeſcended to this ———_
{ 377)
ter inthe.very heat of the Treaty, withone
His Majeſties #aowledg, or the leaſt intima-
- © tion of bis. pleafuree,j + - ary
: | : Add hereunto, thatithis Grave was but a
t | meer-preambular Propoſition, twas nor of
7 | the eſſence. of the. Freary-it {elf - And as the
1 {| Philoſophers and Schbolemen tell us, there
» i is #0 valid proof can be-drawn. out of Proemes,
; if [atroduitians or Cdrefleries in any (ſcience, bur
. I our of the poſitive affergions and body of the
Text, which 1s only argUMment- proof - {0 1n
i the Conſtitutions and Laws of England, as
if alſo in all accuſations. and . charges, forerun-
ning prefaces.. & preambles(which- common»
if ly weak cauſes want moſt)-are nat Pleadable:
| and though: they, uſe tobe firſt in place, like
| gentlemen:Uihers,yer we they laſt in digni-
ty»8S allo in framigg,nor had they: ever the
force of- Laws, bus may -be term'd their ar-
rendaats:to make way for them. -— _
. Belideszther's not a ſyllable in this preface
whichrepeals or cenniyes at any former Law
of..xhe-Land, therefore thoſe Laws thes ſe
ftrifbly; inbibit Enghtſh: Subjects tareſe armes
ag4in ff their Liege Lord the King, and thoſe
Lawes 8 contraris which exempt from all dan-
gers; penaliits or moleſtation, any Subject. that
adberes:t6 the perſon of the | King #n any cauſe or
es | quarrell
4378)
buarre | whatſoever,” ave ill in"force. +:
Furthermore, this #n3r0dutfory Conceon
_ of the Kings, wherein he is:contented:ro de-
clare,Thar the two Houles were neceflitared
to take Armes for their'defence, maybe ſaid
to have relation to. the neceflity,'# parte paf,
not 4 parte ante « ſelf-defence 1 is the univerſal
Law of Nature, and ir:exrends to-alt -other
cretures, as well as rothe'Racionall:-As the |
fluent Roman Oracor'in that ſentence of his;:
which is accounted among'the | Critiques the
excellenteſt that ever 'dtop4d Hrom'Crcerp
Eft enim hac non ſoripta,"fed nata Lew Jem:
01 didicimns, accepimius, legimus, wverins ex.
mature ipſe arripuimus;hauſimeusg exprefſimus,
ad _ non dot, ſed fatti, a0) maftitath, ſed-
imbuii ſumm, ut þ vita noftra tn &6. Forthis
(meaning ſelf-defence) is/ not a wricten,: bute-
a Law born with us; A Law which we have-
not learnt, receiv'd'or reid, but: that: which
we have ſuck'd, drawd torth, and wrong. our.
of the very breſts of Nature ber ſelf;A Law.
to which weare not taught, but made Unto;
wherwith we are nor inſtracted, - but+indued
- withall, rhac if our lifes be in jeopardy) &c--
we may repel force by force; Therfore when--
the Houſe of Parliament had drawni upon}
them 3 As of ſelf ay (Add I om wt
aV6.”.
(379)
have -wiſh'd it had bin againſt any other but
theit.own-Soverain Prince) His Majeſty was
contented to acknowledge that neceſſity.
As for example: A man of war meets with
2 Marchant mat} at Sea, he makes towards
him; and: afſaglts tiim ; The Marchant man
having 'a good ſtout veſſell under him,
nd 'refolute, generous Seamen, bears
Jup / againſt' him, gives him a whole broad-
Ka,
= 9 ww fic fa. 's 53 -
er; fo thete-happens a furious fight berwixr
them; which being ended, the Marchant
nd*thar jaſtly in his own defence, which
Ba x. att. "_—. © > a ,— WW” 6 a
b = & we! 5 T6 OF <5 C3 WE
vilians ſpeak of a clandeſtine marriage, Flere
non debit, ſed fattumr valet ;, It ought not co
have been; bur being done 'ris valid:whetun-
to'relares another ſaying, Mult ſunt que non
niſi peratia epprobantar.Ther are many things
which'are not allowable til theyare paſſ'd, __
'The Kings of France have had ſundry ci-
counters' and claſhes with their SubjeRs ,
whict/turn'd all ac laſt ro his adyantage ;
Among other Treaties in that of Loudpy, he
| DC Was
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fide, and ſhoots him'*ewixt wind and wa-.
cantior deny but rhac the man of war,though
the firſt Afilanr, was neceffitated to fight,
neceffity he drew upon himſelf, and ſo was
exculable, 4 poſterior4,not 4 priori; As the Ci-.
vil wars, They have had many bloudy en-
ſpecially thelaſt King Tews the thirteenth,
was by force.of Article to/publifly. ani Edit;
Dont lequel le Roy approutoit taut (a paſſe cam-
me ajant efte fait, pour ſon ſervice, &c,
W herin the King - approv'd of all thac was
pals'd, as dons tor his' lervice, &c, and
theſe conceſſions and extenuations: are: uſu-
all ac the cloſe of moſt .cipil wars, Þut ther fany
' was never any further, adyantage: made- of
.- them, thea to make the adverſe party more
capable of grace andpardon»35-allo taenadleſſiro
chem tg bear up againſt the' brunt. of 'Laws;
and ſecure them more firmly-from ll afcers
claps; They were paſs'd in order to an-;Adfffre:
of Abolition, ro a generall;pardon, and con: fſthe
{equently to a re-eſtabliſhment.:of Peace;ſſner
now, Peace, and War (we know) are like WarYlucl
ter and lce, they engender ane audther + Butr1
© Conot remember tohave read-either tn. the
French Hiſtory,or any other,that ſach Royy
| Conceſſions at the period of - any--inteſtinſlſofte
war were ever wrung ſo hard, as co: draw.-8:
ny inference fram them, co caſt - cherby. tas
ouile of bloud, or indeed the leaſt Rain: 6
diſhonour upon che King 4 For Royal In-Ylade
dulgences and grants of chis nature are. like the!
nurſes breaſts, if you preſſe rhem-gentylpp.
ther will #/k. come forth;if-you wring.thelEibſc
roo hard you will draw forch &/oxd/in tien: in
milk:
7
| (381)
:Snilk:* And I have obſerved that the con-
cufion of ſuch Treaties in France, both par-
ties wold hugg and mucoally embrace one
another in a gallant way of national huma-
wity 3 all rancor, all plundrings, ſequeſtra-
tion, and impriſonment wold ceaſe,nor wold
any; be proſecuted, much lefle made awa
frerwards in cold bloud. fr
Touching the Comencer of this mon-
trous war of ours, the world knows roo
well, thar the firſt man of bloud was ZBlew-
cap, who ſhew'd SubjeRs the way, how to
Wireſent cheir King wich Pericions upon
ihe Pikes point, and what viſible judge-
zFnents* have fallen upon tim fince, by
Much confuſions of diſcord and peſti-
INlence:ar home, and irreparable diſhonour
abroad, ler the world judge. The Iriſh cook
vhis riſe from him + and; wheras it hath bin
alfofcen ſuggeſted, rhar His Majeſty had fore-
xIknowledge therof, among a-' world of con-
Ffincing arguments which may clear him in
nflthisparcicular, the Lord Maguair _ the
»-Yadder,/and another upon rhe Scaffold; when
flibey were ready to breath their laſt, and tro
yEoppear before the Tribnnall of heaven, did
Bybſolately acquic che' King, and' that ſpon-
i Blarcouſty of their own accord, being unſought
oo unto,
oi UW BY Vow EY 759 4 TY oY ©, :
; (382)
unto, bur only 'out- of a love to'tath; and.
diſcharge:of a goodconſcience : | bur touch-
ing thoſe cruencous7riſh wars, in regard: ther
was nothing wherot more. adyantage was}
made againſt His late ' Majeſty, to imbicter
and poyſon.the hearts of his Subjects againſt
"him then that Rebellion, Iwill take leave to]
wind up the main cauſes of chem upon a
ſmall bottam as was ſpoken elſewhere.
1. They who kept-intelligence and com-|
plyed with the Scot, in his firſt: and ſecond
inſurreftion. *' ; pic
2. They who
Commiſioners (who came of purpoſe to
attend our Parlement with ſom grievances)
with ſuch a ſhort unpolitic harſh anſwer.
3. They who took off Straffords head,
(which had it ſtood on, 'thar: Rebellion. had
never been) and afterwards retarded the di(-
patch of theEarl of Zezcefter from going over
to be Lord- Lievtenanr. EE»
4.. Laſtly, they, who hindred part of that
disbanded Army of .8060 men rais'd there
by the Earl of Srrafford, which His Majeſty, |
in regard they were ſouldiers of fortune, and
looſe caſheer'd men;to prevent the miſchiefs
"that might befall chat Kingdome, by their
infolencies, had promiſed rhe two carer?
Mm a V
diſmifs'd\ the fict Iriſh]
id
(383)
- Ambaſſadors, the Marqueſſes of Yeloda and
Malvezzi, . then reſident in this Court
. which ſouldiers riſe up firſt of any, and
pur fire to the cumulc ro find ſomthing rg
do,
They, I ſay, who did all this, may be juſtly
{aid to have. bin the tru cauſes of rhac horrid
Inſurrecion in 1relavd ; and conſequently
'cis eaſte to judge upon the account of whole
{fouls .muſt be laid the bloud of choſe hun-
dred and odd thouſand poor Chriſtians who
periſhed in that war : and had tc bin poſſible
to have brought o're their bodies uoputrified
to Exeland, and to bave caſt them at the
lower. Houſe door, and in the preſence of
ſom Members, which are now either ſeclu-
ded, orgone.to give an account in another
world, I believe thzir noſes wo'd have guſh'd
out with bloud for diſcovery of the tru mur+
therersS..... .. .. | _ =
Touching this laſt fire-brand of war,
which. was thrown into Exzlazd, who they
were that kindled ir firſt, the confciences of
| thoſe indifferent -and unbiaſſed mea are fit-
teſt ro.be judges, who have bin cutious ro
obſerye wich impartial eyes, the carriage of
things from che beginning. Wo
I confeſle, 'twas a faral unfortunat chings
Ce that
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that the King ſhold put ſucha diſtance
*twixt his Perſon and be Parlement, bur a
- more faral and barbarous thing ir was, that
he ſhould be driwez away from it, -thar
there ſhould be a deſperate deſigne to ſur-
prize His Perſon, that Yez with his Myrmi-
dons, and Bourges . with his Bandogs, (for
ſo- they call d the riffraff of the City they
brought along with them) ſhould rabble
him away, with above. four parts in five
of the Lords, and near upon two Parts in
three of the Commons: Yer'tis fit it ſhould
be remembred, what reiterated Meſlages
| His Majeſty ſent- from time to time aiter-
ward, That he was alwales ready to, return,
provided there might be a courſe taken
to ſecare his Perſon, with thoſe Peers and
other who were rioted away from the Hou-
ſes, *Tis fit ir ſhould be remembred,
chat there was not the leaſt motion of war
atall , till Hotham kept His Majeſty our
of His own Town Kingſton upon Hull,
(for the Name whereof ſhew'd whoſe
Town ic was) where being attended by a
few of His meniall Servants, he came
onely to vifit her, having peaceably ſent
the Duke of York, and the Palſgrave thi-
ther the day before) which act of Monkey S
" by
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{385 )
by- ſhuteing the gates againſt him was vo
ted' warrantable by the Houſe of, Com-
mons, and it may be call'd the firſt thun-
* _—
derbolt of War : 'Tis:fic it ſhould be re-
membred, that a while after there was: a
compleate Army of 16000, effectit Horſe
and Foot inrolled in and abour' London
to fetch him to his Parliament by force
and remove ill Counſefours trom about him,
(long before he put up his Royal Standard)
and' the Generall chen nam'd was to live
and die with them: and: very obſervable
itis, how that Gyneralls Farther was exe-
cuted for a Traytor, for but” atteniptins
ſach a thing upon Queen Elizabeth, I
mean to remove ill Counſellors from about
her by force. *Tis alſo to be obſerved ;
that the ſame Army which was raisd to
bring him ro his Parliament , was continued
to a clean contrary end two years after-
wards to keep him from his Parliament:
'Tis fit it ſhould be remembred, who . ##-
terdiffed Trade firſt, and brought in For-
raigners to help them, and whoſe Com-
miſſions of War were neere upon two
moneths date before the Kings. 'Tis fic
it ſhould be remembred how His Maje-
ty in all His Declarations and publick
Ge 3 In-
hw oY
v wo” wa? 4 VF O
oe Nev, Lg 33.2
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could not obtain it; 'Tis fit ro remember,
(386)
Inſtruments made alwaies deep Proteſtati-
ons, that 'twas not againſt hs Parliament he
raiſed Armes, but againſt ſome ſedirious
Members, againſt whom he had onely. de-
fired the common benefit of the Law, but
that after any good {uccefles and adyanta-
ges of his, he ſtill Courted both. Parlia- >
ment and City to an Accommodation
how upon the Treaty at Uxbridge, with F ..
much importunity for the generall advan- I
tage and comfort of his peeple,and to pre- |} ,;
pare matters more fitly for a peace, he de- (|,
fired there might be freedom of Trade {I ,
from Town to Town, and a Ceffation of th;
all Acts of Hoſtility for the time , that the 6,
inflammation being allayed, the wound
might be cur'd the ſooner; al which was be}
cenyed him, *Tis fit to remember how.
2 Noble Lord (The Earl of Southampton)
at thar time told the Parliaments Com:,
miſt5ners in His Majeſties Name, at the
moſt .unhappy rupture of the ſaid Trea-
ty, That when he was at the higheſt buſt...
world be ready to treat with them, and. fight rec
them when he was at the loweſt: *Tis fit the wha!
preſent Army ſhould remember how of- nod
ten both in their Propoſalls, and publick edt
"IM 9 220 1:23ccfal
fy
dd
g5ce;
tions he had regard Qill that the Army ſhould
* be ſatisfied - let ic be remembred, char co
"(ſettle a bleſſed Peace, to preſerve his
7 JSubjes from rapine and ruine, and to
"five contentment to his Parliament, - He
Id in effet freely part with His Sword,
"gScepter, and Crown, and eyry thing thac
vas proprietary to him : Ler it be remem-
"red with what an admired temper , with
*Fhac prudence and conſtancy , with what
"{oderation and manſuetude he | compar-
to
-k
bt
3.
—_
-
ed himſelf fince his deep affligions, inſp-
SN - Sc3 , *, much
(f
(388)
much that thoſe Commiſſioners and 0-
thers who reſorted unto him, and had had
their hearts ſo averſe unto him before ,
return'd his Converts, crying him up -to
be one of the ſanRtifiedſi perſons upgn earth:
and will not the bloud of ſuch a Prince cry
!oud for vengeance *
Bloud js a crying ſin, but that of Kings
Cryes loudeſt for revenge, and ruine brings.
Let it be remembred, that though there
be ſome Precedents of depoſi 10g Kings i inhis
Kingdom, and elſewhere," when there was
2 competition for the right Title to the
Crown. by ſome other of the bloud Royall,
yet 'tisa thing not onely unſampled , but
unheard of in any age, that a King of Zxe-
land whoſe Title was without the leaſt
ſcruple, ſhould be ſummon'd and arraigng,
tryed, condemned, and executed in ” His
own Kingdom, by His own Subjedts, and
by the name of their own King, to whom
they had ſworn Alleagiance.
The meaneſt Student that hath bur ga-
ſted the Laws of the Land can tell you,
chat it is an unqueſtionable fundamentall
Maxime, The King can de no wrong, be-
cauſe he aQts by the mediation of his
Agents and Miniſters, he heares ' with
—_— 4. | other
— - .. TT TUE NTT
| bm pd > ASKS A .
_ (389)
other mens eares, he ſees with other -
mens eyes, he conſults wich other mens
braines, he executes with other mens
bands, and judges with cother mens con=
ſciences ; - therefore his Officers Coun-
{ellors or favorices are puniſhable, not Ae:
and I know not one yet whom he hath
ſpard, but ſacrificed ro Juſtice. The
Crown of England is of ſo coruſcant and
Pure a metrall;that it cannot receive the
leaſt taint or blemiſh ;- and if there were
any before in the perſon of the Prince,
it takes them all away and makes%him to
be RedFns 7B caria, This as in many 0-
thers may be exemplified in Henry the
Seventh, and the late 9necen Elizabeth :
when ſhe firſt came ro the Crown 'twas
mention'd in Parlement, that the attaiz-
der might be taken off him, under which
he lay. all the time he liv'd an Exile in
France; it was then by the whole houſe
of Parlement reſolv'd upon the queſtion,
that ic was unneceſlary, becauſe the Crown
parg'd all. So likewiſe when Queen E-
lizabeth was brought as it were trom the
Scaffold to the. Throne ;, though ſhe was
under a former attainder', yet 'twas
thought ſuperfluous to take ir off, for the
= QC 4: Crown
ry
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7 (390)
| Crown 'waſheth' away all ſpots, and'/dar-
ceth ſuch a brightneſſe,” ſuch reſplendene
beams of Majeſty, that quite diſpell atl-for-
mer clouds: ſo that put caſe King Tames
died a violent death, and his Son had
been acceſſary to ir, (which is 'as baſe'a
lie as ever the devil belch'd out) yer his
acceſſe to the Crown had purged” all.
This bufineflſe about the playſter which
was applyed to King Tamer, was fifred and
winnow'd as narrowly as poſſibly a thing
could be in former Parlements, yet when
it was Exhibited as an Article againſt the
Dake of Buckingham, 'twas term'd bur a
preſumption or miſdemeanure of a high na-
cure : And 'tis ſtrange that theſe new ac-
cuſers ſhold make that a parricide in the
King, which was found but a 'preſum-
ption in the Dake, who in caſe it had been
ſo, muſt needs have been the chiefeſt Ac-
cefſary,
And as the ancient Crown and Royall
Diadem of England is made ' of ſuch pure
allay, and caſt in ſo dainty a mould, thar
' 1t can receive no taint, or contract the
leaſt ſpeck of enormity and fouleneſfe in-
Ic, felf, fo ir doth eadow the perſon of the-
Prince that weares 'it with ſuch high Pre---
roga-
C
—_ —_—_ Ga — gu nu_—_— WW w
( 391):
rogatives z that it exempts him. from all
ſorrs of publique blemithes ; from all Ar-
tainders , Empeachments, Summons, Ar-
rajgnments and Tryalls ; nor is there or
ever was any Law. or Precedent in this
Land, to lay any Crime or capitall charge
againſt him, thongh couching ciyill mar-
ters : touching propertie of mam and. ta-
4m, he may be impleaded by the meaneſt
vaſſall that bath ſworn fealty ro him ; as -
the Subjects of France and paine may a-
£ainſt their Kipgs, thovgh never ſo abſolute
Monarchs. _
"In the Conſtitutions of England, there
are two incontroulable Maximes, whereof
the meaneſt mootman that bath bor ſalu-
ted Zittleton. cannot be ignorant : the firſt
is, Rex in ſuts Dominits neque habet parem,
nee-ſuperiorem. The King in his own Do-
minions - hath neither Peer, or Superior,
The other is S-tis habet Rex ad penam
quod Deum [expedtet ultorem : "tis puniſhmene
enough fora King that God will take re-
venge of bim : Therefore if it be che Fun-
damentall Conſtitution of the Land, thar
all juſt Tryalls muſt be by Teers, ard that.
the.Law proclaimes the King to have no.
peer in his own Dominions, I leave the
* > £0 world
naggrrne decor omg — >.
- 02 OY nmr m—_— n h EN EENIEN
- (392)
world to judg , what capacity or powerſ
thoſe men had to arraign their late King,
to. be in [effet his Accuſers and Fudges z
and that an exorbirant unſampled Tribu-
nall ſhould be erected, with power and
purpoſe to condemn All ro cleer none,
and that ſentence of death ſhould paſſe
without conviction or Law upon AH: that |
was the heard and protedFor of all the Lawes.
Laſtly, that They who by their own con-
feſfion repreſent but the Common: people,
ſhould aſſume power to cat off Him who
immediately repreſented God,
Cui dabit partes fcelus expiandi
- Inpiter ? —
'- Well, we have ſeen ſuch portentous
things , that former Ages never beheld,
nor will future Ages ever be witneſſe of the
like : Nay, poſterity, after a Century or
two of yeers will hold what is now really
acted to be but Romances,
And now with thoughts full of conſterna-
tion and horror, And a heart trembling with
amazement and ſorrow for the crying fla-
grant fins of this forlorn Nation, ſpecially for
that freſh 77fandows murther commitced up-
on
»*,”, Po F.} Poa A. FF.
| (393) ;
on the ſacred Perſon of his Majeſty, I cone
clude with thisHepaſtick,wherein all cretures
(thoagh irrationall) that have fence, yea the
very wvegetalls ſeeme to abhor ſo damnable
a fact.
So fell the Royal Oake by 4 wild crew (grews
_ of mongrel ſhrubs which underneath Him
Ss fell the Lion by « pack of Currs;
So the Roſe witherd twixt a knot of Burrs.
So fell the Eagle by « ſwarme of Gnatts,
So the Whale periſh'd by « Shoale of Spratts«
In the priſon
of the Fleer
SF. Febr,
| 1648,
3. He
_ - "off
PEN ANG COW - ut
ADVICE
- {Sent from the prime Stateſmen
OF
FLORE NCE,
2 1 Wow
ENGLAND may come
to HERSELF again,
F Which is, i
ATo all inthe KING;
Not upon
eA RTICLE S,
But in a Free confident way :
Which Advice came immediatly upon
{| the Readmiſſion of the Secluded Members,
And Coppies therof being delivered to the
Chiefeſs of Them,
It producd hoppy Effects,
( 397)
Goff ubutbetd
&?
{ Letter fent from the City of
Florence, Written by a Great
Counſellor there, touching the
preſent Diſtempers of Eng-
land ; wherem He, with ſom
of the Prime Stateſmen in
Florence paſſe their Tudge-
ments which 1 the onely way
to compoſe the ſaid Diſtem-
pers.
To my +I and moſt tions Patton.
YT 1s no ſmall diminution to my
wy " > former happineſſe that I have
BY - not receiv'd your commands a-
= ny time theſe two monerhs,
which makes me lodg within me cer-
| ' rain
_ (398)
tain apprehenſions of fear:that ſom diſaſte
. might befall you in thoſe. new. Diftra
_ Rions , therefore I pray : be. pleaſed tc
pull chis thorn out of my thoughts a
ſpeedily as it may ſtand with your conveni
Ency, no crdrrh
| Weare not here ſo barren of Intelligence
but we have weekly advice of your
preſent Confuſions, and truly the ſeve-
teſt ſort of ſpeculative perſons «here
- who. uſe to obferve the method of . Frowi-
dence, do not ſtick roſay, that the: hand}
of Heaven doth viſibly flirre therein, and
that thoſe Diſtractions . in Army , State ,
and City are apparent judgements from
above, for if one revolve the Stories of
former Times,as I have done many- {bur
you more) he will find chat it hath been
alwaies an inevitable -Fate-which uſeth. to
| hang over all popular InſurreRions ro end
in confuſion and diſorders among the. chief
actors themſelfs art laſt z And we have had
divers examples thereof here among us,
which hath caus'd us to be fo long in- quiet-
neſfle and peace. i
. - Bur truly .Str , give me- leave to tell
you that your. INation hath: Ioſt much of
their- Repute abroad all the World over
_,
L (399) | _
ip Plan quo nunc; Som do laugh it you; O-
thers do frorn, and hate you; And ſom do
pitty and comiſerat you. :
They who latgh ar you, think yoti are
no- betrer than Mazd men;baving ſtrange
Magots in your brains bred out of ' the
fir of ſo longs wanton plency , © ahd
Peace. |
They who ſcorn 4nd hate you, dd it for
your Sacriledge; your horrendous Sactile-
es, the like whereof was never commicted
_ on Earth finice Chri#14niry had firſt a hole ro
Pur her head in. |
Thiey who pitty you are few, and WE
are of the fiortiber of Them, as well in the
common ſenſe of Humanity, as for the ad-
vantages, and improvement of Wealtti
which this S:zte hath teceiv'd by your Tra-
ding at Zizor#e, for that Town doth ac-
knowledge her proſperity , and that ſhe
is arrived to this flouriſhing Eftate of Ri-
ches, of ormargy 8 ard bravery by the
correſpotidence ſhe hath had this laccer
Age with Ezeland in poitit of Commerce,
which yec we find doth inſenfibly 'int-
pair eyery day, and I believe you feel
= mores Therefore our of the well-
i -.. de wilhes;
(400) | ;
Wiſhes, and true affetions we bear un-
to England, ſome of the . moſt {erious,
- and ſobereſt Perſons of this. - place. who
are well ſeaſoned in the World, and have
ſtudyed men under divers: Climes, and
converſed alſo much with . Heayenly _ Bo-
dies, had lately a.. private... Junto ,... or
meeting , whereunto I was admitted. fax
one, and two. of us had .been in 4
land where we received ſundry free Civil
ties z Our maia buſinefle was to diſcourle
and deſcant upon tbeſe ſad confulions,
and calamitous condition wherein. Eag-
lezd with the adjoyning Kingdomes are
tricare Her out of this Labyrinth of Di-
irations, and reduce Her to a ſetled
Government z Having long canvaſed
the buſineſſe , and banded arguments
pro. con with much earneſtnefſe ,. all
our opinious did concenter , at. laſt. .1n
this point , That there
That there was no probable
way .under Heaven to fſertle a faſt, and
firm Government amopg . you, then
for the Men that are now. upon the
of power to make a ſpeedy application
to their own King , their own . Liege
ES PW
at Preſent involved, and what might. ex
FIG OO Wj PE OLE 9-ecr =q py Py My. amy. Po y 60 et, SOA Ed ek ina. i,
"(40t) _
Ltd Sh: "Soveraigne, whom Go1; and
Nature harch pur' over them z Ler: chem.
beat cheir brains, ſcrue up their witts ,
and” puc all rhe Policy they tiaye_ upoti.
che renterhooks as farre as poſſibly they
can,yet they will never - be: able to eſtabliſh
a durable Randing Government otherwiſe,
They 'do'* but dance in a circle [all- this
whitle , for- the Governmene will., turn
at” laft. tothe fame point it; was before ;
vis, to Monarchy > and this King will
be teſtored to- His Royall Inherirances,
inaugre all the” Cacodzmons of 'Hell :
Our Afrologers here; ſpecially the fa-
mus Antonis Fiſells hath had tiotes
Go] "look into the horoſcope of his Na-
tivity , and- what predictions bie hacti
made” 'hicherto of him have proved true
to'thy ktiowledge; He now confideticl 7
ayerrs ; with the concutrence of the te
thar - the aſpeft of all the ſtars; and
conjut Rion of the Planerts' mic
favour him the next two yeares | I
Nam Mediuns cath in Geniturd Caroli $t-
exnds Regit Anglid juxta axiomata- Aſtro
114 Gentthliace dirigitir 4d 14410) 8x
Hes Clan Domini 1660; & flent-
Dd z firdf
ba
(402)
| Feat acctſſum ad Dominum, . For the Me-
diam cel; in the Geniture of Chaxles
e Second according to the axiomes
of Genethliacali Aſtrology is direRed. to
che Sextile rayes of the Moon,and figni-
fies an acceſſe to Dominion. Adde here-
unto that a moſt lucky conjunRion- fol-
lowes. the ſame year, in the very Cen-
tre of the ſaid Kings horoſcope , be-
twixt Fupiter and Sol inthe moneth: of Sep-
tember. |
When I was employed by this State
in Paris not many years agoe, I had oc-
caſfion ro make my - addrefle to your
young King, and when I obſerved His
Phyſtognomy, and the Lineaments of his
face., I ſeemed to diſcern in it ſomething
extraordinary above vulgar countenan-
ces, and that he carryeda Majeſty in His
very looks, and noting befides the
godly procerity , and conſtitution of
His -body, he ſeemed to be cut out for a
King.
Now, 1n point of extraction, and line-.
age, it cannot be. denyed bur he is one of the
greateſt born Princes that ever was. in
the world z for :whereas His Grand-Fa-
EY = ther,
j \
SL AS of
we
hs.
bc ; _—
>
of
d3
-
(2404)
of Great Britain, - which Title" and "Chi-
rater is indelible, and muſt die with
oc: RE re gn
Hereunto may be adjoyn'd, thar-this
young King is now meunted to the Me-
ridian of . his Age, and maturity of judge-
ment to govern, and doubtlefle hee is like
to make a rare Governour,' having this ad-
vantage of all other Soverain Princes in
the world to have been bredd up in the
Schoole . of AfffiQtion fo long, to have
Travelled ſo many ſtrange Countreys and
obſerved the haumors of ſo many Na-
——. |
_ But to come to the Cardinall-point of
our Communication, after divers debates,
and alterations how Zngland might be
brought to a ſtable condition of tranquili-
ty andperfe& peace, to her former Juſtre,
and glory, the finall reſult of all, ended. in
this , that there was no other imaginable
meanes to do it then for you to. mike a
timely and ficting humble addrefle unto
your own King, and without queſtion it is
in his power to grant you ſuch an abſolute
pardon, ſuch an abolition of all things palſs'd,
luck a gracious Amneſtia, ſuch Royall con-
7 I oy =" celfions
eb} UV.
* . cs TO TD Ow © 5 FT _ 104. ft
(405)
ceſfions that may extend to the ſecurity
of every perſon for the future that was
engaged in theſe your reyolutions, both
tonching his. life and fortunes ;' Ulnleſſe
their guilt of Conſcience be ſuch thar
like- Cain or Fudas they | thinke their
Sinne 1s greater then can be forgiven
them, - |
| Now the mode of vour application to
Him may avail much, for if you chopp
Logique with him too farr, and ſtand upon
Puntillios, and too rigid termes, it you
ſhew your fſelfs full of feares, jealouſies,
and diſtruſts, it will intangle, and quite
marr the buſineſſe, for in a Soveraign
Prince ther muſt be an 1mplicit, unavoid=
able neceſſary truſt repos'd by his peeple,
which all the Laws that mans brain can
poſſibly invent cannot provide againſt ;
Therefore if you proceed in a frank, and
confident cru Engliſh way you may work
upon his affetions more powerfully , and
_—_ him ſooner ſo, then by any
outward Arms, This way will make ſuch
tender impreſſions, upon that he will
grant more then you can poſſivly ex-
pect.
Dd 4 Some
( 406 )
Some Forein Hiſtorians 3s-the. French:
Comines and our:-Gwicciardin do cry: up: the.
Eogliſh Nation for ufing co /ove their King)
in 2 more ititenſe degree: then other pee-
ple, and to regard his honour in a higher
ſtrain, to ſupport which they bave_ bin. al-
wayes ſo ready, and cheerful both with
their perſons and purſes 5 There 1s now @
fair opportynity offered to. rake up che
embers of theſe ald affeQtions,and to reco-
ver the Reputation of tru Engliſhmen ;
There is no peeple but may ſometimes
ſtand in their own light, -go aſtray, and err,
for Error was one of the firſt frailties thar
were entayled upon man. (and his poſterity)
as ſoon as he was thruſt our of Paraats ; "Tis
a human thing to err, but to perſevere in an
error” is diabolicall ; You ſhall do well and
wiſely to follow the example of the Spa-
n'ſh Mule, who out of a kind of wantoneſle -
being gone out of the high beaten road in-
eo a by path, which led her to a dirty nar-,
row lane full,of pitts and holes, ar laſt ſhe
cameto the top of a huge hideous Rock
where ſhe could go no farther, for before
her ther was inevitable deſtruion, and the
lane was ſo narrow that the could not tarn
| | her
| be ſaid ro be the main Poles wheron Earope
| in the private capitulations of peace, The
(an. =
her: body- back, thernpon in-this extremity
ſhe pur one foot gently after-an other, and
Crablike went backward untill ſhe: came a+
gainto the common road $5 This muſt be
your'courſe, by a gentle rettogradation to
come into the Kings high road again, and
ther is no queſtion but he will meer you
more than three parts of the way : If. you
do not, truly in our opinions you. will pre-
cipitat your ſelfs down a Rock of inevitable
deſtraGtion s For Heaven and. Farth: are ©
conſpir'd tp reſtore him, and though all the
Spirits of the Air ſhold joyn with you, you
ſhall not be able to oppoſe it. I preſume
you are nof ignorant how rhe two great
Monarks of Spain and France (which may
doth move) have comprehended him withs
| Emperour hath promiſed to wed: his quar-
rell,and there is no Prince or State in Chri-
ſtendom but would gladly reach a frendly
hand to reſtore him, being depriv'd of his
birth-righr, and his Royal 77dabitable Tnhe-
ritance (as you your ftelfs confeſle) for obſer-
ving the fifth commandemenr, for obeying
bis Father and Mother; From which Birch-
- right
\
k
( 408)
right he may be'faid co have been-thraft
out when he was in the: ſtate of Innocence
being bur. in a manner-a Child, _ very
young then, : : -
&% 4 . E
PRoecoting you Gl wit der
you, but plainly tell you that you have" not
one friend any where beyond the Seas, nay
your great Confederate rhe Swed (as I had
good intelligence) could upbraid one; of
your Ambaſſadors that are now. there, |
that He bed wet weſhid his hands cleas
-= they bad been embraced in His Princes
The time that I ſojourned in England
I was curious: to read your Annals, and
_ to make ſome inſpections into your Laws,
and Method of Goveramenr $45 alſo into
the Genius of the peeple, and I find there
_ tsno ſpecies of Goverameat that ſuits bet-
ter with the nature of the Inhabitants 2 the
quality of the Clime, and relates more di-
rely to the civil Conſtitutions, Laws, and
Cuſtoms of the Land then Monarchal ; The
Ile of Great Brit«in hath been alwaies a
Royall Iſland from her very Creation, from
her Infancy, ſhe may be ſaid ro have worn
a Crown in her Cradle, and although =
a
1 AY to wn. ae DRC Es RR: -<y
a O9DNnDOM©”PyvcÞTL © 9 rm = -m Ho = Oo
: (409).
had-fonr or five Revolations and c
of Maſters 7 Ao ſill, contigued Royal,
'whereunto - allades a ſaying that I obſerved
- in your old Records, Britannis 'ab- initis
r | mundi ſemper: fuit Regia, & Regimen Tims
t | ſontleitiicelorum : Great Britain hath been
y | from the beginning of the World Royall,
d | and Her Goyernment like that of the Hea-
t | vens.: #7, 35h, 4,
>| Therefore, all theſe premiſes being
# | weighed -in the balance of true judge-
rs | ment you ſhall do well, and wiſely to.re-
colle& your ſelfs, and call in your hope-
4 | full young King, whoſe "Title your con-
d | ſciences do acknowledge to be unqueſtio-
S, j-nable, otherwiſe it is not onely improbable
0 | but impoſſible for Zn-giend to be Her ſelf
e || again, and. to be ſetled:'in any table Go-
- | yernment which may: reach to-- poſterity s
e | you may wind up your-wits as: high- as you
- | can, you may conſulc-with your firſt, ſe-
d | cond, and third choughts, but will never. be
e | ableco ſettle a fixed Government, you will
2] be till ataloſſe, your Debates will be like
nj askeyn of ravell'd threed, you will be in
af alabyrinth of confuſtons, and the end of
ef one, will be ſtill che beginning of ano-
ther, | To
(410)
*4
"To contlade; the current and concur!
| rent opinion of all Miniſters of State” hers
_ both Forren and” Florentine is, tharif you dg
: nor-make@timely application ro your King;
-you will haye all the Princes of Chriſten:
dom about your ears, and what a ſad cala-
-mit69s* Country, whit an Aceldama will
England be then © Therefore: if there: be'-a
true Patriot, and publick ſoul amongſt--yor,
it there be ever any drops of true Ezzliſh
= ranning in your veins, or. the leaſt
ſpark of nationall fire and affe@ions' glow-
ing in your boſoms toward your own dear.
Country, prevent theſe imminent dangers,
andinvite your King by diſcreet and-mode-
rate propeſals ; The gallant Samnr General
could cell the Romans who had over-pow-
red them, that if they gave them eaſie and
gentle capitulations they would perform
them, but if they would tye thenrto'.too”
high and ftrit- terms, they would” obſerve
them'no'longet then they cold have: oppots
' tunity?o break them; =
Touching the affairs of 7taly, we are like
co have a general bleſſed peace this fide the |
Alpes, and Lombardy who hath been ſo pit-
rifully haraſs'd a long. time; atfd- hath
had
ts
her þ
(411)
ner face ſooften ſcratck'd, isin a fair way to
recover her former beauty 3 Signor Giovanni
pelavicino, and D. Lorenzo Minuccio convey
their moſt affeRionate reſperts unto you, ;
| 640 doth: | |
'7o onr. Emire - Fer Faithfull Servan,
Flotence this 1 2th.
of- March, 1659.
They are divers other large Peeces ending
#0 the ſame Subjeit , which ſhall be publiſoed
- fin the ſecond Tomes
of i
# _——
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